right justified text snaps to left instead of right

[Trevor Spiteri]

The snappable point for right-justified text is not at the far right of the baseline, but at the far left, which is not very useful. The same goes for centered text; the snappable point should be in the center in this case.

For example, if I right justify some text and need its right side to be at x = 10 cm exactly, I would expect that if I drag the text, its right side snaps to the 10 cm vertical grid, but instead, its left side snaps to the grid.

As a workaround, I left justify the text, drag it such that its left side snaps to the 10 cm vertical grid, and then right justify the text. This can be a lot of work when moving multiple text objects that are not left justified.

[Diederik van Lierop (mail-diedenrezi)]

Good point! I'll assign this to myself but won't give you an E.T.A. ;-)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

AFAIU this fixes bug #168329 “When text is centered, anchor should be centered too” (<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168329>) as well - while the visible baseline anchor stays in the lower left corner, the snapping point of the text object now corresponds with the chosen text alignment.