Don't display border if consecutive borders splits accross frames/columns

[Jon Chambers]

Inside my textboxes, I have:

• Unchecked: Display Border if Paragraph Splits Across Frames/Columns
• Checked: Merge Consecutive Borders and Shading with same Settings

So far so good. Everything works exactly as I want it to, except for one edge case:

Sometimes a paragraph happens to end at exactly the same place as the textbox. When this happens, it displays the border. But I want it to NOT display the border when this happens, just as I want it to not display the border if the paragraph splits across frames/columns. This only ended up happening at one place in my document, so it looks like an error.

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

To bring the bug to the attention of the product managers and engineers, you should report it in the InDesign User Voice:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs

It will be much likely to be see and acted upon there.

[Jon Chambers]

Will do. I thought the bug was me not knowing how to use the software properly.

[Jon Chambers]

Please vote for my bug here https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/45948208-bug-with-parag...

[Jon Chambers]

I found a very hacky inelegant solution, which also highlighted a problem behind the problem. So, by adding a lot of funny whitespace characters, I have tricked inDesign into thinking two different paragraphs are really the same paragraph, getting the behaviour I want. But on closer inspection... there is no consistency between where the shading ends. I don't really care how far from the bottom of the textbox the shading ends, so long as it's the same consistently. It isn't.

So, a bug within a bug. Inception of bugs!