strikethrough should be behind text

[hendy_5450]

any way to get the strikthrough to be behind the text instead of on top?

[Mike Witherell]

Hi Hendy,

Make sure you are doing this in a paragraph style:

Instead of Strikethrough which is on top, try any of these:

Underline plus Underline Options where you Offset the underline to suit the position you wish.

or also Paragraph Rules (either Rule Above or Rule Below) where you Offset the ruled line to the position you wish.

These go behind your text when offset in vertical positioning.

Always tend to work in Paragraph Styles for your text.

[hendy_5450]

i'm doing this the entire time,
but only the negative offset works, not regular numbers

[rob day]

any way to get the strikthrough to be behind

Hi @hendy_5450 , Use Underline Options rather than Strikethrough Options if you want the color to be behind  the text characters:

[hendy_5450]

Attatched are two separate documents.

One, the strikthrough rule is working perfectly and the other it doesn't do the offset right.

Can't figure out why.

> soups and layout: works!

> desserts to format: not working

[hendy_5450]

Here I have a few of the stlyes, only the last one is right.

Any idea why?

Does it have to do with that it's paragraph shading on top of shading??

[hendy_5450]

Chosing baseline instead of ascend by the shading options helps, but still not working right.

[Eugene Tyson]

Here's something that's a bit obscure - you can make your own Stroke Styles

Window>Stroke

Then stroke panel opens and you can create your new style by selecting the 3 lines in the top right of the panel 

These are settings I used to create the New Stroke 

Then you can apply that to the Character Style 

  

To adjust you can play around with the weight - offset 

And also adjust the New Stroke Style to better fit what you need. 

Sample file attached

This addresses the need for an underline along with with a background fill for the word.

If you need a gap after the stroke - adjust your stroke style  

 

[Peter Spier]

Without seeing the file, it's hard to say, but my first instinct is you've also got some baseline shift applied to the text.

[Colin Flashman]

I've written an article about character/paragraph rule stacking orders for CreativePro that may help:

https://creativepro.com/understanding-the-stacking-order-of-paragraph-rules/

From the article directly is a lookup table based on stacking height (top row of the table being the highest layer, bottom row of the table being the lowest layer) as well as where the type sits within the stacking height.

In terms of its up/downposition, that can usually be adjusted with the offset value.