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Em Space, possible to define in Paragraph Styles, Indents and Spacing

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    • March 9, 2016 at 8:10 am #82774
      Clement Aanestad
      Member

      I want to use Em space in front of my Paragraphs, this space is dynamic and changes if I scale the font up or down. (and the right space for this use)
      I use GREP, search and find, today. From “^.” to “~m$0” (find start of paragraph, change to Em+Found text). Works fine.
      But I wonder if there is a way to define 1 Em space in Paragraph Style, Indents & Space dialog boxes. First line Indent.
      Or are we stuck with locked units in these dialog boxes?

    • March 9, 2016 at 10:18 am #82775
      Aaron Troia
      Participant

      Clament,

      Unfortunately no, there is no way to use Em’s in InDesign like in CSS. I would love it if it did though, I would be using Em’s a lot if were integrated into paragraph and character styles.

      Aaron

    • March 25, 2016 at 2:09 pm #83409
      Ari Singer
      Member

      I thought about your question and came up with an unconventional method.

      Why not use bullets?

      Define a bullet in your paragraph style. Instead of the standard ellipse, the glyph should be the uppercase letter ‘M’ of that font. Give it a character style with the color [None] applied. And that’s it! As you resize the paragraph, the uppercase M ‘bullet’ gets resized with it!

    • March 30, 2016 at 1:37 am #83457
      Clement Aanestad
      Member

      Yes, that is a kind of workaround. But with a lot of text, all the first word in any paragraph will be wrong, and mess up further search, if needed. But yes, OK workaround.
      The grep code mentioned in the question is a more safe solution, and fast enough.

    • March 30, 2016 at 7:29 am #83481
      Ari Singer
      Member

      I’m not sure what you mean by ‘all the first word in any paragraph will be wrong, and mess up further search, if needed’.

      It doesn’t enter a ‘live’ letter M, it’s just a bullet, and a bullet is not searchable. So I’m not sure what you’re problem is. You can also use an em dash instead of an uppercase M, if that’s what you want.

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