I’m pulling notes into an agent from a number of different containers.
The agent automatically puts my alias notes into a grid that’s slightly too wide for my taste (I’ve set interiorScale to 1.5 in order for the notes’ labels to be legible through the agent)
I can’t seem to find any control over the dimensions of the grid that’s being laid out. Ideally I’d like to specify a width in “notes”, i.e. to say that I’d like my grid to show 5 notes abreast. Very ideally I’d like to specify that the notes are laid out in columns, one after the other.
Generalizing, it would be a nice feature of the “cleanup” action for notes.
In my case, I have lists of about 30 students which would make sense in 3 rows of 10. I know I can have this by specifying an adornment to gather my notes and widening-it so it carries three rows - but then they are laid out “row-first” instead of “column-first”.
Different sizes, and different shapes. One approach would be to make the grid from rectangles whose dimensions are equal to the minimum bounding box + margins for the shape with the largest dimensions.
Layout distributes horizontally notes number 1,2,3,4; than vertically notes number 1,6,9,15,17. Everything is top/left aligned to these.
The same notes in a column-wise sort, specifying 7 rows:
Vertically distribute notes 15, 2,3,4,12,6,7; Horizontally distribute notes 4,9,16. Everything else is right/top aligned to these.
There are many options - choosing the right set to make this manageable, useful and nice-looking may take a while. I’m willing to play with it if you need help.
I’m en route to The Future Of Text right now (https://www.thefutureoftext.org), but we’ll take a look at this and add it, in some form, to the roadmap.