Dear Dia users, When designing one DIA diagram on many sheets, I am wondering if it is possible to define some "text attribute".
Let me explain what I mean by "text attribute": - Imagine I have a DIA diagram based on 10 pages. - I would like to add a frame with information belonging to this frame. - Typical information would be: DATE, SHEET_NUMBER, TOTAL_OF_SHEET, AUTHOR, FILE_NAME, etc... The idea is: - to define some user_variables like: USER_DEFINED_DATE, USER_DEFINED_SHEET_NUMBER, USER_DEFINED_TOTAL_OF_SHEET, USER_DEFINED_AUTHOR, USER_DEFINED_FILE_NAME, etc.. - those variables are interpreted by DIA, - DIA user could give value (string) to some of those variables, for example: USER_DEFINED_DATE = first of November 2011 USER_DEFINED_AUTHOR = Stephane Bigler USER_DEFINED_SHEET_NUMBER = 3 USER_DEFINED_TOTAL_OF_SHEET = 10 USER_DEFINED_FILE_NAME = my_file_name.pdf - DIA display the variable contents in the diagram, And dia could distinguish between normal text or text which needs to be interpreted: - normal text: toto - text which needs to be interpreted should be in capital letters and start with defined character (like '>'): >USER_DEFINED_DATE Is there anything already available in Dia? Thanks for your comments. Stephane ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact address: EPFL - STI-IBI2-LHTC BM5126 Stephane Bigler Station 17 CH - 1015 Lausanne phone: +41(0)21 693 0933 fax : +41(0)21 693 9635 _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
