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• • April 21, 2015 at 8:33 am #74856
    Robyn Hoffman

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    Hi, everyone,

    I have a design idea that I would like to try for a manual I am working on. I would like to restrict my paragraphs to a relatively narrow width, while allowing my headlines to span the full width of a the same text frame. I would absolutely love it if there was an option in span/split columns like, “restrict this style to inside column only”; that would work beautifully. (I don’t want the text to flow into the outside column – just continue to the next page). As far as I know, though, that is just a pipe dream for now. Another solution would be if I could draw a text box of an appropriate width for the paragraphs, and allow the headline text to break that box, and remain wider. So far, the only solution I’ve found is to place my headlines in their own textboxes, and then anchor them into the text. I don’t love this solution; can anyone think of anything better?

  • April 21, 2015 at 8:46 am #74857
    David Blatner

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    Why not just set the body text to have really big left/right indents and leave the headline indents to zero?

  • April 21, 2015 at 8:47 am #74858
    Robyn Hoffman

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    Can I do that based on inside/outside, rather than left and right? That would certainly work if I could!

  • April 21, 2015 at 8:58 am #74860
    David Blatner

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    No. There is an align to/away from spine, but the indents are just left and right.
    Hm. Can’t think of a good way to do this. Maybe with text wrap?

  • April 21, 2015 at 9:00 am #74861
    Robyn Hoffman

    Member

    I’ll stick to my anchored headlines for now, then. I wanted to make sure there wasn’t a cleaner way. Thanks, David!

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