Can you add stroke to underline?

[kisuke29]

Is there an option to add a stroke to an underlined word or text.
example:

Nüni = the 'N' is underlined. After highlighting the text to add a stroke effect, it is only applied on the text.

Is there a way/option to add the stroke effect also on the underline? For now I only replaced the underline with a underscore in a separate text frame then added the same stroke effect and placed it below the 'N'.

Thanks 🙂

See screenshot below. 

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

I'm pretty sure it's not possible without using the workaround you're using.

The stroke only applies to the glyphs (characters) in the font. The underline is a separate attribute being applied, in this case, to a single character, and there is no way to define a stroke for an underline, or a strikethrough or similar attributes.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Although InDesign does let us control the size, position, and style of an underline, stroke isn't one of the options.

In a paragraph or character style, see the Underline Options in the style's definition dialogue (towards the bottom left).

[kisuke29]

Thanks. Appreciate the expalnation. 🙂

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

The only way I was able to get the effect was to set the type in Illustrator and convert to outlines. 

Converting to outlines in ID removed the underline. 

Note: I did not try to match the font. 

[SJRiegel]

I was able to do this on live text using Paragraph Rules. It took a bit of finessing the numbers, and using a Japanese Dots style rule with the same color on rule and gap to make the edges rounded. 

 

[Steve Werner]

Nice workaround!

[kisuke29]

Nice, though it's more time consuming. Thanks! Appreciate it. 🙂

[Peter Spier]

I've done something similar to the original workaround, but it doesn't need two frames. I typed the underscare first, then the N. Added negative kerning (in this case -520) and scaled the underscore horizontally (130%) to get the width. Probably just as fiddly as the paragraph rule.

[kisuke29]

Nice workaround using kerning! Appreciate the idea.

Thank you all! 😉