I made a text box, then went to objects>text frame options> then created 3 columns with a. > I have also been able to create the effect with a list of copy, starting with a hyphen on each of 9 items, they are separated by a hard return. 125 in.) it seems that ID seems to know that the first tab needed it the left indent measure (that’s cool). the first line is -.125 in., flush left, (in QX I would have to set the tab to.
The next line for one example is a bullet, tab, the text to the sentence. > The subhead has no indent, flush left, with a paragraph break, Univers 47 lgt cond 9.75/12pt. > I was wondering if this had something to do with the single line composer function or the metric/optical function? I have taken 4 screen shots of the the desktop if seeing them would help. I am just now getting up and running using paragraph styles, so I have invoked manually the positive left and negative right paragraph rule and also set the process up as a style sheet, and I get the same result. It already has bullets in the copy, or astericks, or hyphens. But these three work for most situations.Īnne-Marie, I am using ID CS3. There are other methods, too, of course, such as anchoring objects that hang outside the frame.
The more you kern, the farther out the first line goes. Then apply a huge amount of kerning between the space and the character you want to hang. The third method is a hack, but it is the only way to get text to stick out beyond the left edge of a text box: Type a space (or better, use a fixed width space, such as a Thin Space) before the first character in the paragraph. So if you type a character, then a tab, then the Indent to Here character, the rest of the paragraph will indent to that position, making the first character hang.
This forces all subsequent lines of a paragraph to indent to that position. You can also create a hanging indent with the Indent to Here character (which you can find in the Type > Insert Special Characters submenu, or by pressing Command/Ctrl-backslash). More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. In the following image, note that all the paragraphs are indented to leave room for the “hanging” icons. For example, if you were doing a directory, and you wanted each phone number to have a little phone graphic next to it, you could make a paragraph style that used automatic bullets, and specify a phone icon to be the bullet. This could be useful, however, if you needed to apply a special graphic at the beginning of a lot of lines. This adds a left indent and negative first line indent for you. You cannot make the negative first line indent “larger” than the left indent, though - that is, you can’t use this to make a first line stick out beyond the left edge of a text frame.Īn alternate version of this is to use automatic bullets. That forces the whole paragraph to the right, then “pulls” the first line back. There are three basic ways to hang text.įirst, you can give a paragraph a positive Left Indent and a negative First Line Indent. Hanging text means making the first line of text stick out to the left slightly, beyond the normal margin. I’m designing a business card and i want the T (telephone) and F (fax) to hang away from the numbers. I was just wanting to know the best way to have characters hang.