Editing bullet size/type and insets.

[Mr Lucky]

In Affinity Publisher I have added a bullet list.

 

Where/how do I change:

• The actual bullet (e.g. size and shape)
• The inset of the bullet
• The inset of the text relative to the bullet?

Thanks

[Dan C]

Hi Mr Lucky

I recommend checking out the following tutorial, as this should cover your questions - 

https://affinity.serif.com/tutorials/publisher/desktop/video/337313778

If you're still having trouble please do let me know!

[Mr Lucky]

That looked great until it suddenly got very complicated.

I got the glyph browser, but mine had different things under geometric shapes, only a very small bullet or a very large one. Not thew Glyph 322 shown in the video

Anyway moving on , so I choose the large one

Next bit Idon't understand "value equivalent to tab stop, he adds 0.64 --- why 0.64?

 

Anyway I did that

Added tab

reduce 1st line indent but I get this and only line one is indented

 

[MikeW]

The left indent will need to also be the 0.64". As to why 0.64"? Just because they chose it I suspect. A bit too much in my opinion...

[MikeW]

btw, if you wish to change the size/color of bullets, you should be using paragraph style and make a character style that the bullet section of that paragraph style uses. That way you can control the size and/or color and its baseline offset (how the bullet sits in relation to the font you are using for the text).

[Mr Lucky]

37 minutes ago, MikeW said:

The left indent will need to also be the 0.64". As to why 0.64"? Just because they chose it I suspect. A bit too much in my opinion...

But the left indent was .64, it seems to automatically be the same once you hit return.

 

But then the video said to reduce to 0 so I did

 

 

[MikeW]

First line indent should equal zero. But the paragraph itself needs the left indent set to, in their example, 0.64 inches.

 

Edit to add...

The way APub works and displays that first line value is dumb. Type -.064 in the first line indent. The value will display a zero.

 

[Kal]

Creating a custom bullet looks easy in that video. In practice (at least on my system), it's a freaking nightmare. I click in that text field, and hit delete (like he does in the video), but mostly I just end up deleting all the selected text in the document. Occasionally the active cursor/selection will stay in that text field, but more often than not it jumps back into the text. Another bug I guess.

[Fenyman]

Yea I feel like the whole bullet/number list workflow is not that great. If I want to quickly iterate on colors/character style for lets say 10 bullets or numbers - I dont want to have to make a character style every time. Its useful once you have chosen the look, but from a designer perspective, this workflow is no fun!

Otherwise, love the software so far  

[jonowi]

nuts that you can't just highlight a paragraph with bullets, then select the bullet size / colour / shape from a simple drop down

[walt.farrell]

Just now, jonowi said:

nuts that you can't just highlight a paragraph with bullets, then select the bullet size / colour / shape from a simple drop down

You can select the bullet shape:

For the other characteristics, you need to define and specify a Character Text Style, though.