dotted underline through tab character

Susan Moulton

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    • October 30, 2014 at 3:25 pm #71324
      Susan Moulton
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      It would be great to post images of my nested styles. There is a sequence of two. The first nested style is none (no style) “up to” the tab character. The second nested style is a dotted underline (character style) through the tab character.

      I am working on a college catalog. The paragraph style has a dotted underline created in nested styles to avoid accessibility issues with dot leaders (Jaws reading the dots).

      Problem: The dots are running through the number character following the tab with the dotted underline. The underline does not stop where it should.

      I set the dotted underline to be through the tab character; not through the sentence. When I set it up the dotted underline to “up to” tab character, it is the same. I don’t know how to get the dotted underline off the character after the tab.

      I have tried different searches. I found some great examples of this, but they don’t cover the problem I am having.

    • October 30, 2014 at 7:21 pm #71340
      Jay-Art Sadjail
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      hi susan can you post the sample data. maybe its easy to used the grep paragraph style to that.

    • October 30, 2014 at 8:07 pm #71347
      Jay-Art Sadjail
      Member

      susan maybe i misunderstood your problem try to post the image or the data. thankz sorry for that… Sir David and Ms. Anne Marie hope there is an icon were you can delete your reply when you think you misunderstood the topic….thank you

    • November 6, 2014 at 9:08 am #71477
      Susan Moulton
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      This DOES work:
      [None] up to 1 Tab Characters
      DOTTEN UNDERLINE (ch style) through 1 Tab Characters
      Looks like:
      Criminal Justice Elective …………..»…………..35 (there are no dots under the 35.) Note: the tab is Right Justified

      This DOES NOT work:
      [None] up to 3 tab Characters
      DOTTEN UNDERLINE (ch. style) through 3 tab characters
      CRJ»201»Crisis and Conflict Mediation……..»……..35 (35 has dots under it.) Last tab is right justified

      I suppose I need to learn grep, eh?

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