Johanness Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 It would be nice to be able to format character background. When I add a background to a character it vertically extends to the highest and lowest character in that line. Depending on the font and line-spacing this doesn't always look right - especially when the highlighting spans across multiple lines. My current solution is to increase the groundlines of spaces surrounding and inside the highlighted text - but that's tedious and doesn't work to decrease the height of the highlighted area. A lightweight solution would be to have two additional variables in the positioning part of character format: either background height in %, and background groundline-height, or background correction-top, / -bottom. A more luxurious approach would be to have a separate "background" partition of the character panel with color, horizontal and vertical size and postiion of the background (in pt and % of the respective character) and border (with thickness, color and style for top/left/right/bottom border)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Isn't this already possible in the Decorations pane? You can adjust the extension of the background all four sides, and tie this offset to various details of the character. Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 11 minutes ago, PaoloT said: Isn't this already possible in the Decorations pane? That's paragraph backgrounds, but the request is about character backgrounds. PaoloT 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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