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[thomas80]

Hi

Im trying to create a headline centered in my textbox. I would like dots on both sides of the headline. Since I need several headlines with individual number of letters I'm trying to accomplish this "automatically".

I'm doing this by starting with a Flush Space, then my HEADLINE, and then another Flush Space. I can then set the Flush Spaces to have have e.g. japanese dots as a strike through. The paragraph is set to fully justify. Unfortunately my HEADLINE isn't center in the text box when doing it this way. Shouldn't it be? Is there an easier way doing this, without creating a manually line and haveing my text box on top of that with the paragraph centered?

Thanks.

[vinny38]

Hi

see this post: Somewhere … Lost In The Universe! [Left/Right Strokes]

You will find a couple of nice suggestions...

[amaarora]

Hi,

How about using both paragraph rule above+below for the heading title.

For example: here i have set rule above color to paper(for purpose of illustration) and rule below as blue with japanese dots.

The width of rule above stroke is text and style is solid, whereas for rule below it is column width with japanese dots. Now as and when my heading title changes my rules would automatically readjust...

-Aman

[vinny38]

Good point, I wrongly assumed background would not be [paper] ^^

However... this technique works well with a solid stroke, but with dots, you will come up with truncated dots, which would be quite unaesthetic.

Alternatively, if you have a fixed column width you could do this:

instead of 2 flush spaces, you could use 2 tabs, set up with a dot as tab leader. Set central tab with half the length of your column, and right tab at the end of the column.

Use a Grep style to catch tabs and apply whatever styling you wish.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

A Jedi uses The Force! … [one light-saber hit]

Just text with 2 para rules!

(^/) 

[thomas80]

Hi,

Looks like something I could use, but I simply can't get my head around how you have done it? On the top image it looks like there is a script applied to accomplish this? And the "Rule Above/Rule Below" doesn't seem to do the trick, when I want the color behind the text to be "None" (see through). Any pointers to the right direction? Thanks!

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

It's done by script! Not automatic! …

By experience, it's not really important: if the layout moves, e.g. adding "Planet" before "Coruscant", just play the script again!

The rule above is for the left side and the rule below the right one.

You can define the "horizontal gap" between the rule and the text. The script "extracts" the perfect X-offset of the beginning and the end  of the text "Coruscant" and subtracts (left) and adds (right) the gap to these 2 numbers.

The result is simply perfect without needing to do something except 1 click to run the script.

Of course, if -- sample -- you modify this text size everywhere in the doc, just one new click to "redraw/update all the "dots-lines"!

… As you see, you can play it with image background!

Finally, no need other layout constructions as a table [as Vinny and I did it in the thread he indicated you!].

(^/)