Textoverflow Plug-in

Yes, but the updates of texts will occur only when the plugin is open, so you’ll either need to keep it open while editing text or open it to update the texts. There is no way to make it do these things in the background at all times.

Hi Gleb, thanks for answering this question. Do you think it’s something you could build?

I believe it would be a bit too convoluted to use as a plugin, so I don’t think it would be wise to build this.

I see, can you think of any workarounds to achieve the similar effect?

No, I don’t think there are any workarounds (otherwise I wouldn’t have said that about the plugin idea). There needs to be a native solution.

Thank you Gleb! By the way, I really like your website and what you do, nice stuff 🤟

Thanks! ❤️

That’s a reasonable compromise as long as the edit is not reset when the plugin gets closed.
It’s weird that there’s no plugin yet that actuallt does that (and works).

How would you do if you just want to continue a numbered list on a second column?

Perhaps because to cause a time save compared to doing this by hand, the plugin would need to be complex, but nobody wants to spend a lot of time developing a complex solution for a small problem. You’ll need to waste more time on it than it saves. Especially given that the plugin would be merely a workaround and not a “real“ feature, which the Figma team can do in a couple months if there was enough demand. Perhaps the lack of demand could be another reason.

The same way as a theoretical plugin would do it. Plugins can’t add any new features to Figma or custom behaviors. They only can do what a regular user could do. As a user, I would wrap the text in a component and then clip it with a frame, duplicate it and clip the instance with another frame.

Thank you for the trick 🙂