A story that ends with a paragraph return has an empty last paragraph. When
it didn't fit, DesignCraft marked the story overset at the end of its text
(Preflight: "Overset text: 0 characters"; the out port turned red).
InDesign doesn't: Montilla Design's Flex Layout file has a caption ending
with a return, fitted to its three lines, and InDesign reports no errors.
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Montilla Design's Flex Layout file names its body face "Regular " (with a
trailing space, as the designer's copy of Articulat CF did). Face lookup
already ignores spacing and case, so the text is drawn in Regular, but
font.list (Find Font) compared names exactly and reported the style
missing. It now uses the lookup's comparison (designcraft_fonts::same_style).
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A Flex Layout container is a frame holding its objects as nested items
(as Edit › Paste Into makes), with a `flex` record: direction, wrap,
justification, cross-axis alignment, Fixed/Auto width and height, padding
and horizontal/vertical spacing. designcraft_doc::flex lays the objects
out (a Flexbox subset: lines, justification, alignment, Auto sizing), and
the engine runs it after every edit, so the container keeps its objects
in place whatever changes.
Commands: flex.add (Add to Flex Layout; detects aligned objects: their
direction, Auto size, Space Between at their own spacing, as InDesign
does), flex.convert (a group or rectangle frame), flex.remove (objects
stay, grouped), flex.set (every panel setting, plus the alignment grid
cell), flex.reorder. Resizing a container by its handles or W/H changes
its box and makes that side Fixed instead of scaling its objects;
dragging an object inside one drops it in the nearest place.
UI: Object › Flex Layout (Add to, Convert to, Remove, Show Flex Controls),
a Flex Layout panel (Window › Panels) laid out as InDesign's (Create Flex
Layout; alignment grid, W/H with Auto/Fixed; justification menu, four
directions, wrap; padding with the link button; spacing, greyed as
InDesign does when the justification works it out or nothing wraps), and
the same section in Properties. Icons are new drawings.
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Brandon Thomas