Text is a mess in many ways.
I'm trying to put letters on a keyboard.
In order to work with it, I tried making a base construction line and locking all of the letters to it with a constraint by their lower left corner. But then, as I shifted the new letters into position, the other letters would shift slightly, and even rotate and scale.
So I set another construction line parallel constrained to the first and locked the top left corner of the letters to it. I then added a dimension so that the lines wouldn't drift further apart and I could move all of the letters together. But then the letters would turn off of vertical or jump in position strangely.
So I set vertical constraints on the left line of each letter and finally got them settled down so that I could keep them all lined up and adjust their horizontal position precisely without the size or angle changing! Success!
So then I need to do the second row of keys. I'll just copy the first line and change all of the letters in it!
But as soon as you edit the letter, it throws away all of the constraints! They ALL have to be redone. So I have to reset 3 constraints on all 60 keys before I can slide them into position.
Why not at least keep the constraints?
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I mean, we somehow can't get an option for center or left or right justification on text, or get text to automatically stay at the size we typed in when we created it, or even get it to remember the font and size settings between additions of text, and trying to load external files is an invitation to slowness and crashing, but now I can't even get the best workaround to stick!
