Fit frame to content on text box

[kauansales]

Hello all.

I'm with a issue on InDesign CS6, I can't use fit frame to content on a text box ended with "-".

I'm using the "-" as a separator between a text with a paragraph style and a number with a different style. There is no character or space after the "-" (space after also doesn't work). 

My guess is that InDesign interprets the "-" as a hyphen and don't let me use fit frame. When I change the "-" for any other character ( ; : . | + ) the function works.

So, my question is: How do I tell InDesign to interpret the "-" just as a character? Or how can i use fit frame to content in this case?

Ps. Hyphenation ON or OFF is indifferent.

Thanks!!

Kauan

[Barb Binder]

Hi kauansales ,

I keystroked this to see if a non-breaking hyphen was any different, but it worked as expected. What other variables are in play? Font? Version? Reference handle in the proxy?

~Barb

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi Barb,

this issue was a bug in CS6 that is fixed now.

A workaround would be to use a character like an "l" after the dash and format it with no fill, 0.1 pt size and horizontal width of 1%. For that one you would apply a character style.

Regards,
Uwe

[Barb Binder]

I never encountered that, Uwe. Thanks for letting us know!

So kauansales, I'm going to mark Uwe's answer as correct—you can update InDesign or follow his work-around.

~Barb

[Eric Dumas]

Hi, in this case I use the following:

1. the text is in the same text box
2. the paragraph style is using tabs centred on -
3. character styles setup for both formatting and used as nested styles
4. I tried using data merge, it still worked (in case that's what you are doing)
5. a possible trick would be to use a table, maybe 3 columns: text, -, number

[kauansales]

Thanks everyone for your time and help!!!

I'll try to update to the latest version of InDesign CS6.

If still not working, i'll use one of the workarounds suggested.

Thanks!

Kauan

[Laubender]

Hi Kauan,

to make that clear: The bug was never fixed with CS6.
I tested with CS6 8.1.0.

Regards,
Uwe