Challenge – Hanging Bracket in Table Cell Script?

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January 22, 2010
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I don't know anything about scripting but....

Can a script be written to handle hanging brackets in financial tables: where financial numbers are right aligned and any negative number brackets extend out to the right. Optical Margin Adjustment doesn't work. Have handled it with a cell style with a smaller inset but there must be a better way...

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jay fresno

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I don't know anything about scripting either, and maybe I'm not fully understanding the question -- but why not use Jongware's idea of a decimal aligned tab? You don't need to have a decimal in the numbers; you just need table columns that are a consistent width. I tried it on a table similar to yours and it seems to work fine.

michael_reid

Participant

Is there a way to have the figures aligned to brackets and have them consistent when set in any width column?

michael_reid

Participant

still waiting...lol

Jongware

Community Expert

No challenge at all: http://robcubbon.com/designing-tables-with-a-hanging-bracket

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artistic_LilyFA82Author

Participant

Hi Rob

I've been doing financial tables that way for many years but am now having to utlize the Table + Cell Features of InDesign and I haven'tt found an efficient way of handling the hanging brackets.

Maybe I'm missing something?

Jongware

Community Expert

It's a tab setting inside the table's cells. Select the entire column and call up the Tab bar. Then add an Align to Decimal tab:

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