SteveKimpton

Thanks for all the effort everyone. I'm afraid I checkened out and did it manually because the number of instances didn't justify the time - the and likelyhood of edge cases that we haven't thought about.

Thanks Thomoso, I expect such script coding would be possible but remember it's not the number of characters that matters but the physical space available. Lines with lots of 'w's take more space that those with lots of 'i's. In any case, I'm sure it's beyond me so I'll stick with the manual tweaks!

To clarify: The original text was produced in MSWord with all paragraphs left aligned. Each line of the poem was actually a paragraph with verses separated by blank lines (i.e empty paragraphs). There were no overflows because the author had her pages set to A4. I hoped to find a style that would allow me to copy and paste the original text to get the effect requested by the author as illlustrated by lacerto above without the need to edit the text with additional breaks, tabs or anything else. I used the word 'tricks' to refer to this unfortunate but apparently necessary editing.

That's a sufficiently good trick, especially when used with the 'tighten' function, to get what I need. Thank you.

I need to lay out a book of poetry. Sometimes the left aligned lines (paragraphs in fact) are too long to fit the page and the customer wants the 'overflow' line to be right aligned. I've been looking to set a style for this. The option of Justify Last Line Right works if there is a first line (although it can look messy with big gaps) but if all the text fits on the line it is also the last line and so becomes right justified. Is there some way out of this? I.e. left aligned for the first line but right aligned for the second?

Thank you all for spending the time answering my question. Teemax's video was perfect when I finally managed to see how the rectangle became transparent (dragging from one layer to another on the layers panel) Thanks again!

I know this must be simple but I just don't see how to do it. I have some black on transparent drawings that I need to convert to a specific colour (it happens to be rgb 235, 207, 0 = cmyk 8, 19, 100, 0; = hsl 53,100,46) on transparent. 1) In AP I click ctrl i to turn the drawing from black on transparent to white on transparent 2) Click Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Recolour. This gives the HSL option only. 3) I can set H and S to the exact values but L starts off at 0. My guess is that I need to be 46% of total 200% range, i.e.-8%. Unfortunately that colour is much too light and I'm sure there must be a neater method that doesn't need arithmetic. On the web, there are a lot of tutorials where the starting point is to carefully select precise areas and then paint in a colour. My starting points aren't photos with lots of gradation, they have already been processed into lines of absolute black on absolute transparent and I want to change the black to another precise colour. Any help would be appreciated.

Yes - Thanks for that. Also easy to delete it as soon as you can see that there is something (or nothing!) to delete at the end of the previous line. I have never deliberately named a paragraph style so I have no idea why it should be called Box.

Here's the one page file with offending grey box greyBox.afpubx

Is this what you mean? I didn't import anything but I did copy the text frame from another page. If I close up the frame, the rectangle disappears but this can't be the right solution. I can't see another way to get rid of it.

Fantastic - would never have found it without your help!

Thanks for the quick responses. Here's a cut down version of the file as requested TOCprob.afpub

There are no bullet points anywhere in the text or headings that I am putting into Affinity Publisher. However, they keep appearing after the titles on any update. People seem to have had difficulties removing bullet points that existed in the original text but I haven't got any any can't find out how to remove them except by manually editing the TOC. However, they re-appear immediately on each update.