how do you get a line break in special character?

[noah98A7]

I am trying to resize a text box with a section marker so that it makes a second line and I cannot figure out how to change the special character options so that it doesn't just compress the text when I shrink the text box.

[Jens Trost]

You mean using a variable like a running header?
That's still not possible in the year 2021... a variable is treaded as one character and always smushed into the textframe.

[Jens Trost · Accepted solution]

There are some workarounds like
https://ccchallenges.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/how-to-fix-text-variable-running-headers-from-squeezin...

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi Jens,

if the variable conatins a single section marker I see no way to split that contents into two variables.

Hi Noah,

can you show a screenshot of a typical section marker you want to split to two lines?

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

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