Breaks gets converted to space characters in Running Header text variable

[rasmussvanejensen]

 

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi,

see more details on this issue at InDesign UserVoice and vote for fixing the problem:

Running head containing forced line break inserts space incorrectly
Anonymous, September 05, 2019

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/38535526-running-head-c...

FWIW: Don't think that the behavior with text variables was different in previous versions of InDesign.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[rasmussvanejensen]

Thanks – Voted to fix it 🙂

[David Popham]

That's standard behavior for Text Variables. What specifically are you trying to accomplish? They may be a way to work around that limitation, depending on what you're trying to do.

[rasmussvanejensen]

Is it by design? It feels like a bug 🙂

Can you give me an exaple where this would be helpfull?

[vladan saveljic · Accepted solution]

take a look also in this thread from april 2020 maybe could be helpful

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/running-heads-and-forced-line-breaks-extra-space-character/m...

[rasmussvanejensen]

Thanks – I will have a look

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi rasmussvanejensen,

the workaround would be to have no line breaks.

If you need a line break do it without a line break special character.

Two examples below:

[1] A very wide white space applied by a character style.

[2] Use text wrap.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[rasmussvanejensen]

Hi Uwe.

Thanks for the work around – Looks like I will have to use a MacGyver solution for now.