Tip of the Week: Fancier Paragraph Rules
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You can get fancier rules between paragraphs if you combine a Rule Above and Rule Below. By adjusting the Offset values of both rules, you can overlap them so they appear to be a single rule. Or you can create new styles like a double dotted rule.
I see your Double Dotted Rules and raise with double-colored bars above and below :) See https://imgur.com/a/5tszva8
Haha, love it!
Is there a way to add a dingbat above a line of text like a rule. Have a index and want to add a square box above the first line of each new alpha category. So, for example, I have the B’s separated from the “A’s” using a space before as part of a paragraph style. My client wants me to add a square centered in the space between those entries. I did a rule above offset to be centered vertically and then indented the rule from the right to approximate a square. However, it appears in some of the columns that the rule width or height is varying ever so slightly. Is there another way to do this?