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• • February 8, 2010 at 2:32 pm #54852
    zackaders

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    Hello

    does anyone know of a command, script, or plugin to do a custom text backfill based on the paragraph alignment? (hard to explain, but for ex: if you type a paragraph and select all the text, the background fill would be the same shape as your highlighted selection – get it?) I have been doing this manually by drawing a shape behind the text, but it is a huge pain to change the text background shape every time the text is edited.

    thanks

    zachary

  • February 8, 2010 at 3:16 pm #54853
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    How about using a Strikethrough, just increase the thickness of the Strikethrough to encompass the text.

  • February 8, 2010 at 3:53 pm #54854
    Tom Pardy

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    Or you could use a rule (above or below) and adjust its thickness and offset to where you want it. If you then made a character style of that, you could simply select the text and apply the character style.

  • February 8, 2010 at 5:23 pm #54855
    Dwayne Harris

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    I agree with Eugene and Furry. But, if it's not throughout and maybe something like boxed material or sidebars that flow with the text, you could try to make a single-cell table out of those paragraphs with the shading. When text is added or deleted, it will resize.

    If you use the character style sheet method for the strikethrough or rule above below, I'd nest through a hard return. Of course, you'd have to have a separate paragraph style sheet for that shaded material.

  • February 16, 2010 at 4:10 pm #54917
    zackaders

    Member

    Thanks a lot for the replies. I tried the strikethrough style, which was pretty clever, but the strikethrough is in front of the text, so I used an underline with an offset which was almost perfect. The only issue is that the aligned edge (in this case, Left) could have a little more white space (see the screenshot below). The right edge is perfect, it extends out beyond the text just enough. Changing the alignment and tab values just moves that edge along with the text, unfortunately. Can anyone think of a workaround? Almost there…

    Thanks again!

    

  • February 17, 2010 at 1:20 am #54918
    Eelco

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    If you only got 1 line sentences you could you the paragraph rules (below or above).

  • February 17, 2010 at 2:53 am #54919
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Unfortunately the that is something that can't be avoided when underlining, you'd have to add a soft return to each line of text then insert a space after each soft return.

    I can't think of another way that you could it.

  • February 17, 2010 at 7:27 am #54921
    zackaders

    Member

    Well, I think I'm just going to draw a vertical line along that edge and group it with the text. Then, just extend it down if i add text. Thanks for the help

  • February 17, 2010 at 9:22 am #54923
    Eelco

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    Last thing I could come up with is finding the beginning of every line with GREP and insert a em-dash or something?

  • February 17, 2010 at 11:38 am #54928
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    No joy there. GREP's “start of line” and “end of line” markers are for paragraphs, not for single lines.

    You could make the entire thing a table — one single row to auto-grow, two columns, where the left one has a solid white fill. But I bet you are going to say, “Doesn't work — single cells do not break over pages!”

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