Indesign Paragraph Styles Help

[byamritas]

Hi so for a project, we have to create a film flyer. I wanted to know if it is possible to create the heading text (the date) in line with the main body text (film title, etc) using paragraph styles? I've added an image reference bellow.

[winterm]

Just an idea. Sure your values will be a bit different.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

Already answered [3 years ago!] to this kind of layout!

Make a research on the Forum!

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[jane-e]

What search terms should we use, Obi-wan?

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi Jane! 

Just: "Obi-wan"!

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[jane-e]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Obi-wan+Kenobi  wrote

Hi Jane! 

Just: "Obi-wan"!

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Bonjour, Obi-wan!

Search for Obi-wan and we will find this post from three years ago? Can you give a date to narrow down the search?

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

The video has been posted 25/03/2014! Search in March 2014! 

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[jane-e]

Merci, Obi-wan!

I found this from August 23, 2017

Split Text frame in 2. Header on the Left, Paragraph on Right. (image inc)

and also this that started on March 25, 2014

Column for heading, column for body text?

Thank you for the clues, and wouldn't it be nice if the InDesign engineers built this in to our beloved software? It's something we all could use.

~ Jane

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Jane,

Could you be interested to realize a review [screenshot/video/laïus] of this future script [not for free] that will just do it in 1 click, simply based on the title para style?

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[jane-e]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Obi-wan+Kenobi  wrote

Jane,

Could you be interested to realize a review [screenshot/video/laïus] of this future script [not for free] that will just do it in 1 click, simply based on the title para style?

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Sure, Obi-wan

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Cool!

Soon! … In private! 

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[jane-e]

This kind of layout makes me wistful for the feature in Ventura Publisher where we could set No Line Breaks between paragraphs and have multiple paragraphs on the same line. You could start the next paragraph when the previous one ended, or use left and right indents to separate them. It worked perfectly for the OP's example without using a table—just styles.

[MW Design]

Sorry to resurrect a fading thread...

This kind of layout makes me wistful for the feature in Ventura Publisher where we could set No Line Breaks between paragraphs and have multiple paragraphs on the same line. You could start the next paragraph when the previous one ended, or use left and right indents to separate them. It worked perfectly for the OP's example without using a table—just styles.

Amen. I do still use VP under Win 10. I have old publications done for clients that I convert at a rate of about 1 a month and lament this feature doesn't exist in anything. (And how another good one, being able to opt for a paragraph to use space above on say a chapter start heading style?) Oh well...one step forward, two steps back it seems at times.

Wouldn't split columns be helpful here in lieu of tables?

If I were keying in the data (which I never really do except for corrections), I would likely use a table. But that is slow and tedious.

Mike

(Do note I haven't looked at Obi's videos. I pop in here mostly on a mobile and the data hit could get expensive watching vids on a limited plan...)

[Barb Binder]

Hey Mike,

As an FYI, FrameMaker has this feature. You define a sidehead column, and designate a paragraph to sit in the sidehead next to the paragraph that it modifies (left side, right side, or alternating from the left to the right side depending on the page side). I moved from Ventura to FrameMaker 20 years ago, and haven't looked back. I'm amazed you are still using it, but you are still working with long docs, it's worth taking a look at FrameMaker.

~Barb

[MW Design]

Thanks, Barb.

I thought I remembered FM had a similar capability but wasn't sure. I used FM once years ago at an on-site week-long job but that wasn't enough time to have fun with it. If I could be assured it wouldn't move to a subscription scheme, I would be tempted to plunk down the cash. I'll subscribe on an as-needed basis, but not for playing around. Other than that one job way back when, I've never been asked to use it. I have very few jobs wherein I am in control of what format I turn over.

I use VP these days to resurrect manuals I once did in order to port them to ID or QXP for the companies I once did them for. It's up to them what they use, though. I doubt I could talk them into the transition to FM. Because of that work, though, I do get contacted once in a while by companies I never did original work for, so maybe it's an opportunity to suggest it and see what happens. Before I do, though, I would need to push one or two into FM so I can experience the work-flow.

It is getting to be year-end so one never knows. Maybe Santa will bring me a job for it and I would be more at ease about the grand it costs.

Thanks again, Mike

[byamritas]

Hi Obi-wan Kenobi,

Yes I stumbled on that video however, I know this may be quite silly of me to ask but my question was more of under what tab or section of the paragraph styles would I need to work around? Would it be Indents and Spacing or Advanced Character Formats.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Some time later! … Another approach! Always 1 click! 

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