Publisher > tab stop character style

[Ideagonal]

Hello there,
I've looking to assign a character style to tab stops leader character, image example provided: the line is a different color from text, I did this manually, but want to assign character style automatically because I have so many of this in my book. This is posible in inDesign.

[Old Bruce]

It appears we can only do so with Number/Bullet lists, and the Character Style is only for the tab after the number or bullet but before the text.

This would be a good Feature Request.

[MikeTO]

Until the day comes when a feature like this is added, you could use Find and Replace to search for tabs and replace them with tabs formatted as red or whatever you like.

[Ideagonal]

I found a workaround, but a bit too complex. You can use Initial Words to assign a character style before the tab, but you need an additional character because Initial Words includes the first End Character, so I use a Non Breaking Space + Tab (see image); now you paint the whole paragraph with the color desired just for the line and apply the character style with the color to the initial words. The word count is just a big number.

[Rusack]

Needed to make a line that would have a gray dotted line to the end of the frame. The text before had to be gray. Found a workaround, make the paragraph gray and set the initial word to black, end character Non-Breaking Space

But it turned out that there's a 50-word limitation for initial words  upd: turns out I can set it to 0 and that means there's no max word count

BUG: When this paragraph "flows" to another frame, it's gray from the beginning of the frame

so maybe someone know a better way to implement this? 

Edited April 24 by Rusack
new bug

[NathanC]

Hi @Rusack,

This will be related a known issue with initial words not flowing correctly into additional text frames that's currently logged with the developers, I've bumped the existing issue with your report.

[Rusack]

2 hours ago, NathanC said:

Hi @Rusack,

This will be related a known issue with initial words not flowing correctly into additional text frames that's currently logged with the developers, I've bumped the existing issue with your report.

thank you

[NathanC]

3 minutes ago, Rusack said:

the bug is that any paragraph which flows to the next frame won't use "Only At Column Top" at the top of the second frame.

Sorry, you've lost me here, I'm not sure what function you're referring to.

In your previous post you've demonstrated the use of non character limited Initial words Text style attribute to set the text to black based on the 'Black Text' Character style. The text in the paragraph flows between two separate text frames, and the Initial words using the 'Black Text' character style stops working on the second text frame as the text isn't black, which exactly coincides with an existing bug that's logged internally.

[Rusack]

Just now, NathanC said:

Sorry, you've lost me here, I'm not sure what function you're referring to.

In your previous post you've demonstrated the use of non character limited Initial words Text style attribute to set the text to black based on the 'Black Text' Character style. The text in the paragraph flows between two separate text frames, and the Initial words using the 'Black Text' character style stops working on the second text frame as the text isn't black, which exactly coincides with an existing bug that's logged internally.

yes, sorry, wrong topic