Help me please: underline combining with indent problem
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Hi, I am trying to figure this one out but still not get it yet. The thing I want is a custom way to indicate new paragraph (there are 2 points to make)
1. each paragraph will not start with a new line
2. new paragraph will be indicated by the first word being underlined; the underline will extent all over to the left and shifted out ~0.2 in (it is not aligned with the left side of the text column but offset to the left).Here is the image of how it looks: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hlYKnqVWWf7-Eu4aMu5kWFZMYKzIUsbQ/view?usp=sharing
Please help me with this one, it drives me crazy!
Thanks a lot!
Ngoc
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InDesign’s paragraphs never start at the end of a previous paragraph. So that rules out everything you can do with styles.
The same goes for paragraph rules: they appear at the top or bottom but never half-way.
Your non-standard design needs manual work. For each of those lines, and every time again when text reflows because of corrections.
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(Oh well – I say “manually”, but this should actually be quite scriptable. If those bolded words are the only ones to appear in the entire text, or (probably even better) they have a unique character style, then a script could find them. You already know the leftmost point for your lines; together with these texts’ rightmost point a script can draw the lines for you.
But you’d manually have to re-run the script every time something in the text changes. You cannot add such functionality to InDesign.)
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Hi there
Nice puzzle.
Here’s a script-free workaround:
What about anchored objects? A black line followed by a white one.
Using object styles, set custom position accordingly: x-pos related to text frame or column + indentation for the black stroke. X-pos related to insertion point for the white one). Remember to place them somewhere on your pasteboard so you can easily select and copy them.Then, run a Grep Find/Replace to locate your “boldCap” words and use ~c metacharacter to insert your 2 objects after your word. (Nota: In the example below, it will work only for a single word)
Everything should keep flowing nicely.If you have to add a new “starting word”, remember to select your two anchored objects markers before running your F/R query (that you can save btw).
Oh, and in case your white stroke overlaps another element, remember that Effects > Stroke affects… every stroke ^^
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You’re welcome…
Please report back, I like your puzzle and I’d be glad to know how you sorted it out.I also realized that my last sentence was a bit “cryptic”…
If you want to understand what I meant, see this gif: (Produit = multiply / Contour = stroke)
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