Paragraph rules: fixed distance

calculating white space of text could be one of the functions of Adobe Sensei.

Hi Uwe & Michel, It seems like the problem with a percentage amount is the percentage should be based on a before and after change, and not a font metric like cap height or ascent. Seems like Sensei works by knowing the actual starting size.

I’m wondering if the better scripting approach is using a dialog to capture the new text size and then apply the change as a percentage to the text. In that case the white space and rule thickness would be optically correct

This AppleScript asks for the desired point size change, and alters both the point size and rule thickness:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"
    set myDialog to make dialog with properties {name:"Text Size"}
    tell myDialog
        tell (make dialog column)
            --Integer Edit
            tell (make dialog row)
                make static text with properties {static label:"Size"}
                set myRealEdit to make real editbox with properties ¬
                    {edit value:12.0, maximum value:1000, minimum value:0, small nudge:1, large nudge:10, min width:50}
            end tell
            
        end tell
        show
        set n to edit contents of myRealEdit as real
        destroy myDialog
    end tell
    
    tell active document
        set ov to properties of view preferences
        set properties of view preferences to {horizontal measurement units:points, vertical measurement units:points}
        set s to object reference of selection
        
        if class of s is text then
            set p to point size of s
            set pct to n / p
            set ra to rule above offset of s
            set rw to rule above line weight of s
            set point size of s to n
            set rule above offset of s to ra * pct
            set rule above line weight of s to rw * pct
        end if
        set properties of view preferences to ov
    end tell
end tell

Here I'm changing 44pt to 20pt

The result is an optical match

Hi grif030 ,

a wonderful example for a feature request:

Distance from Rule Above or Rule Below should be a percentage of the Point Size or even better, the Cap Height of the font used in a paragraph style.

Go to InDesign Uservoice, do a feature request, come back here to post the link to the request so that we can vote for it:

Adobe InDesign Feedback

Regards,
Uwe