Reply To: Centred paragraph style for a heading with rules/lines

Thank you both so much for trying to help — Michel’s video looks interesting and I’d love to see how that paragraph style is built — just what I need (book catalogue for the publisher I work for as he asked me to turn it into more of a ‘magazine-look and feel’) but so far have only covered the stroke behind the text with a white/paper stroke.

Any idea why my underlined em spaces just move the text to the right rather than stay centred? Do em spaces have some sort of weird behaviour that has escaped me?