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Paragraph Shading question

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Can this "highlight" look be acheived with Para Styles / Shading?

Basically, a notched flag.

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Mike Witherell

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Multi-line? I got nothing coming to mind.

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James Gifford—NitroPress

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Text frame with vertical centering, equal inset margins, auto-size vertical, and a kicked right border:

All sizing is automatic. (These are a bit shaky, not all neatly tweaked etc.)

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Mike Witherell

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A nice approach if anchored objects is allowed.

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Mike Witherell

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Sorry, I got pulled away to something else!

Here is an example paragraph style employing a paragraph rule below (and behind) and a wingding triangle at the right-justified tab position knocking out the rule in order to simulate a flag.

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Flags-as-Styles-2024.zip

James Gifford—NitroPress

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Ah, hey, that's clever... but I don't see that it's auto-sizing to varying numbers of lines.

If any "entity" is needed, I still think a text frame with a kicked-in right side, set up to adjust for any number of lines, is the simplest.

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Mike Witherell

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Yes it can.

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James Gifford—NitroPress

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To quote Caddyshack... "Well? We're waiting!" 🙂

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James Gifford—NitroPress

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Not with shading and borders. You'll have to lay in a triangle graphic to get the notch.

Not as simple and organic, but you could also notch a text frame and lay it over a colored background frame. Not quite sure what would happen if you used text shading along with a notched frame —might be worth trying.

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davecourtemancheAuthor

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Trying to incorporate in a para style in menus. I have been using the above, but looking for something that can move with the item. Anchored doesn't work because it won't sit behind the copy (the flag is set to "overlay")

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James Gifford—NitroPress

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Yeah, oddly enough I am using a similar construction in the project in front of me (a presentation), and the only solution I've found is to basically do it manually. (I only have a few examples and can just cut and paste, so it's not really a running solution.)

Can you get away with something like background shading plus a big right hand border, with each of them different tints?

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