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November 27, 2019
Question

skew in character style for numbered list - does not skew

  • November 27, 2019
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The font i'm using does not have an italic style so i' ve made a paragraph style with 10% skew (Advanced Character Formats) and a numbered list.

This works, but when i add a Character Style with the same font and skew amount as a style for my numbered list then the numbers don't skew.

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LaubenderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 27, 2019

Hi ttaa,

you just discovered a bug, I think. A bug that is longstanding.

Don't know if this ever worked with numbered lists.

 

Best do a bug report here:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/

 

Then come back and post the link so that we can vote for fixing this issue.

 

What could you do?

Find a substitution for the font that allows an italic style.

Or: Do your own font based on the skewed samples with the script IndyFont:

http://www.indiscripts.com/category/projects/IndyFont

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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    RvdT
    RvdTAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 28, 2019

    Hi Laubender,

     

    Thank you for your reply.

     

    I' ve reported this bug here:

    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/39146554-skew-in-character-style-for-numbered-list-does-n

     

    Thanks

      Jongware
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      JongwareCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 28, 2019

      Wasn't there a very similar post a while ago that mentioned another option which Just Does Not Work™ in bullet/number lists? Can't recall what option it was – but it indeed also fell in the category of "why ever would such a simple thing stop working for what comes down to a character style applied to an auto-generated number??"

       

      Using IndyFont to work around this is absolutely possible, but it should not be necessary – it's a bug.

      Normally I'd recommend doing a trial run with a single-character font made with the free demo, but in this case, for a numbered list, it wouldn't amount to much and you'd still need the full version. (Which makes creating a Faux Italic version extremely easy as that is actually a built-in feature! See http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2014/11/what-s-new-in-indyfont-1-135)

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