Comments on: Highlighting an Entire Paragraph with Color

By: Lukas Engqvist

Lukas Engqvist — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:19:33 +0000

Have any of you added this using adobes official feature request? Asking politeley is the first step to recieving ;p
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:01:45 +0000

Weller wrote: “DTP programs should have implemented CSS-like options for styling years ago”

I wonder if anyone here knows anything about “Prince XML”? Apparently it produces PDFs from HTML+CSS (and from XML+XSL+CSS), but that’s as much as I know. Oh yeah — and some consider it a replacement for LaTeX. But really, I’m in the dark here. Any more info from people who use InDesign?

By: yidu

yidu — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:08:35 +0000

yes,use “rule above” can do any other Effect.

By: Prashant Bhatnagar

Prashant Bhatnagar — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:44:47 +0000

Hi buddy,
your method looks good but luckily I managed to achieve the same result without the second step you mentioned. for a font size of 12pt I used the offset value of -3.5 and underline weight of 23pt. Give some space before and after and bingo. you can use the rule on any number of lines in a paragraph.

Regards

By: Kathryn Hathaway

Kathryn Hathaway — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:23:28 +0000

I’ve been trying to use the rules above and below to make a head that is reversed out of a solid color. I’ve used the Text Width setting and a negative left and right indent to set the width of the rule. When it is larger than the text and offset a bit, I can center the heading inside a colored bar that travels with the head.

Let me know if there is another way to have a head with a color bar attached.

Or if I didn’t explain it correctly.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:50:43 +0000

I mentioned in an earlier reponse that I made a mistake, you don’t need the rule above. Although you might want to use it if you want the area above your paragraph to have more color than the rest of it.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:48:00 +0000

Could Jochen and/or Fritz please explain to me why you don’t need the rule above? If the paragraph has a first line indent, isn’t it the only way of getting rid of the corresponding “step” in the highlighting?

What am I doing wrong? — No matter how thick I make my underline, the “step” is still there, and I can’t see how it would ever go away!

By: Weller

Weller — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:20:56 +0000

>>> Again, I would use a table with one cell…
And so would I, but only for one page document.

Using one cell (or anchored text frame) is not very flexible.
The text inside the cell is not in the natural Story text flow. As a concequence
1. you cannot access the text just by pressing the arrow keys
2. you cannot edit the text in story editor (CS3 & lower)
3. anchored object doesn’t reflect changes to parent frame size (without Rorohiko APID & scripting, that is)
4. things like “Select All”, “Copy” & “Paste” somewhere else do not behave as expected.
5. It’s sooooooooooo Quark like

Besides what we want is to assign paragraph style and move on.

By: F vd Geest

F vd Geest — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:17:13 +0000

Again, I would use a table with one cell…

By: Fritz

Fritz — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:35:19 +0000

@ Jochen – You are right, I guess I don’t need the rule above. Maybe my rule below was lonely and needed a friend.

On another note, I can’t believe how this little post touched a nerve. This just goes to show how much more InDesign could do. Hopefully the Adobe engineers read our posts.