Quote Originally Posted by angelize View Post
Word from Xara support is that this is not a bug but a web designer feature called Group Squashing. It allows groups like headers and footers to change width with minimal distortion.
it means the default behaviour is geared towards DTP; - try it with two separate lines of text that have been grouped - they move apart without stretching [distorting] the text, as you might want in header and footers in DTP

so either DTP has more priority, or maybe Xara thinks DTP users are less likely to want to mess with key modifiers...