http://indesignsecrets.com/auto-numbers-and-bullets-pick-up-local-formatting.php InDesignSecrets Blog and Podcast Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:34:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://indesignsecrets.com/auto-numbers-and-bullets-pick-up-local-formatting.php/comment-page-1#comment-486932 Beware of local formatting and numbered lists | InDesignSecrets Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:08:40 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/auto-numbers-and-bullets-pick-up-local-formatting.php#comment-486932 [...] You may be aware of the long-standing issue in InDesign where the numeral at the start of auto-numbered paragraphs picks up the formatting of the first character of the paragraph. Anne-Marie wrote a nice post about this here. [...] [...] You may be aware of the long-standing issue in InDesign where the numeral at the start of auto-numbered paragraphs picks up the formatting of the first character of the paragraph. Anne-Marie wrote a nice post about this here. [...]

]]> http://indesignsecrets.com/auto-numbers-and-bullets-pick-up-local-formatting.php/comment-page-1#comment-372910 Anne-Marie Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:54:44 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/auto-numbers-and-bullets-pick-up-local-formatting.php#comment-372910 Neat trick, Canvai! Neat trick, Canvai!

]]> http://indesignsecrets.com/auto-numbers-and-bullets-pick-up-local-formatting.php/comment-page-1#comment-372855 Canvai Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:51:24 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/auto-numbers-and-bullets-pick-up-local-formatting.php#comment-372855 In CS2, when you couldn't apply character styles to bullets, one of the things we did was to add an invisible character (such as a discretionary hyphen) as the first character in a list in order to change formatting of the bullets. Since the bullets picked up the attributes of the first character, this allowed us to change things like the bullet's baseline, or keep it from picking up character style attributes from the text (bold run-ins, etc). In CS2, when you couldn’t apply character styles to bullets, one of the things we did was to add an invisible character (such as a discretionary hyphen) as the first character in a list in order to change formatting of the bullets.
Since the bullets picked up the attributes of the first character, this allowed us to change things like the bullet’s baseline, or keep it from picking up character style attributes from the text (bold run-ins, etc).

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