[work] Re: [Qgis-community-team] manual conventions

[Tara Athan]

Otto-  We don't know precisely what the version 1.0 GUI will look like, 
but there are certain things we can be sure of.  For example, a checkbox 
option will have a box, either empty or with a mark in it, and a label.  
So the style for a checkbox item would include a "checkbox icon" - which 
could be a graphic or latex generated - and then the label. I have 
modified the checkbox style in conventions.tex to show what I mean.

The shadowbox idea is interesting - we would want to explain in the 
foreword that the shadow means clickable. It does make the items stand 
out. However the text in the button is shifted up so much that, to my 
eye, it interupts the text flow.   Is there anyway to adjust the shadow 
so it is not quite so dramatic? Or perhaps adjust the vertical spacing? 
I can't remember the command to shift something down below the baseline.

Tara

Otto Dassau wrote:
> I found some more macros provided by the fancybox package and added them to
> conventions.tex: \fbox, \shadowbox, \doublebox, \ovalbox and \Ovalbox. I also
> tried to use them, this is really difficult to make them look similar to the
> GUI items. Maybe the \shadowbox is useful for clickable buttons?
>
> regards,
>  Otto
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