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• • August 8, 2013 at 9:41 am #64753
    dleather

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    I know I’ve done this before, but I can’t find the file I did it on! I have a paragraph style with a bulleted list. The bullets are letters, followed by some space and then the list item. I want the list items to be aligned. (For instance the item after “I” is closer to the margin than the item after letter “W”, because a “W” takes up more space in the line than the “I”. I don’t want that.) I can get them to align by adding a tab (using GREP) in the style options. The problem is, when I use this paragraph style on text running around an object, the list item will jump to the next farther tab setting if the text-wrap art pushes it past the first tab. So instead of the, oh, say, 1/4 inch space after each letter, I get 1 1/2 inches of space after the letter all of a sudden.

    I swear, at some point, I edited the GREP for a list paragraph style that aligned the copy after the bullets, but I can’t figure it out again! Or maybe it was editing the “tab position” field, but that field is greyed out now, so I don’t know how to edit it. Someone please save me from my self-imposed stress freak out misery.

    Thanks.

  • August 8, 2013 at 10:07 am #64754
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Seems like you should be able to do this by simply turning on the Optical Margin Alignment checkbox in the Story panel. When I do that, it both moves the bullets out into the margin a tiny bit and also aligns the lines to the right of the bullet.

  • August 8, 2013 at 10:41 am #64756
    dleather

    Participant

    That moves some of the key letters a smidge to the right, actually “unaligning” them with each other. And the text after the bullet is still not aligned. Any other ideas? This has got to be able to be done…it’s probably something obvious… like why might my “tab position” field be uneditable?

  • September 11, 2013 at 7:51 am #65241
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    You are trying to do what I am trying to do and I too KNOW that I have done this before. Found this response on another thread. I think this is what you and I are looking for.

    “You can also create a hanging indent with the Indent to Here character (which you can find in the Type > Insert Special Characters submenu, or by pressing Command/Ctrl-backslash). This forces all subsequent lines of a paragraph to indent to that position. So if you type a character, then a tab, then the Indent to Here character, the rest of the paragraph will indent to that position, making the first character hang.”

  • September 12, 2013 at 1:08 pm #65267
    Sarah H

    Member

    In the original post, are you saying it only doesn’t work when the text is wrapping around an object? I am not aware of a way to make the usual bullet/text alignment work when the text is wrapping around an object. I always have to manually fiddle with it (like with Deirdre’s suggestion).

  • September 12, 2013 at 2:34 pm #65268
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yeah, that’s a pain. Here is how to make the bullet wrap:
    https://creativepro.com/create-perfectly-curved-hanging-indents.php

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