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Center Lines Paragraph Styles

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    • #66507

      Our team was given a design style and we found one strategy to do it (thanks to a suggestion from someone online), but that strategy only works on white paper. I wondered if anyone knows if there is another way to get this to work even if it were on top of an image. What we’re looking for is:
      first line is a centered upside-down triangle (t in zapf dingbats), second line is centered text with a slight gap and centered lines on either side of the text. ——– title ——–
      The one way we found to do this was to do a rule above and rule below with one being white and covering up the other rule. We couldn’t figure out how to make the triangle first line as a nested style (it kept putting the rules on the first line).
      If the triangle can’t automatically be before the ——– title ——– that is ok, but is there another way to make the lines work without a white coverup so it can be used on colored backgrounds or images or gradients?

    • #66509
      David Blatner
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      Does all that have to be a paragraph style? Why not just insert the triangle and lines as anchored objects or as characters in the text?

    • #66510

      It doesn’t have to be a paragraph style. I just wanted a quick format for all titles so I wouldn’t have to do a lot of formatting for every title. Is there a quick way to put in the lines on either side to adjust as the title is typed? I really don’t know how that would work. I was trying an option to use tab leaders, but the dashes have spaces between them (looking for one line on either side). I have a screenshot of what it looks like, if that helps. Thanks!

    • #66525

      Since you are having the titles typed, have you considered maybe typing a few em spaces on either side of the title? Then you can create a character style sheet with a custom underline and nest them and apply a custom underline on those emspaces. That would give you a rule on both sides. But you’d have to key the em spaces when typing the titles.

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