Having a hard time adding rulings for first graders to my worksheet

[woodgrim]

I'm trying to accomplish this with Publisher 2: 

So far I have managed to make a table that looks similar:

The thing is... I need lines for my worksheets in different lengths. Sometimes underneath each other, sometimes next to each other. I am trying to figure out how to best implement this with Affinity. I tried it as a pic in the background but it is so hard, like sometimes I need 20 of these line in word length exactly in a row and so on. 

[NotMyFault]

Hi,

do you need

• lines only (text will be hand-written later)
• or lines specifically related to static text within the document (e.g. heigth or width matching characters)?
• or data merge text and auto-create matching background?

if the focus is ore getting the lines matching to the icons left from them, i would use rectangular shapes and curves, giving them fill and stroke as needed. Then arrange to taste, using snapping to get proper alignment. 

[PaulEC]

If I understand correctly what you are trying to achieve, it should work using a two cell table, with the top, middle and bottom borders formatted as needed. Then copy the table and adjust the length and height to suit the words. Snapping should help you get each word lined up.

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[woodgrim]

On 1/12/2023 at 12:44 PM, NotMyFault said:

Hi,

do you need

• lines only (text will be hand-written later)
• or lines specifically related to static text within the document (e.g. heigth or width matching characters)?
• or data merge text and auto-create matching background?

if the focus is ore getting the lines matching to the icons left from them, i would use rectangular shapes and curves, giving them fill and stroke as needed. Then arrange to taste, using snapping to get proper alignment. 

The middle point: I need lines that fit to the font I'm using and I need an easy way to create those lines. Thus I tried using a table because I can save the table and just insert it where I need it. But it's more complicated than I thought because in the template of the table the heights and width isn't saved. I could just copy - paste from other documents but I wish it would just work like this: today I need 20 lines with the width of a word. Tomorrow I need 12 lines for 12 similar sentences. 

 

On 1/12/2023 at 1:24 PM, PaulEC said:

If I understand correctly what you are trying to achieve, it should work using a two cell table, with the top, middle and bottom borders formatted as needed. Then copy the table and adjust the length and height to suit the words. Snapping should help you get each word lined up.

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Yea this works great but this month we are still using sans serif fonts, next month we use serif fonts. Today we learn new words so I need them in word length, tomorrow we will write sentences so I need it in another size, next week we need those lines in the length of a short text. 

I will spend a lot of time just adjusting those tables to my needs instead of creating worksheets and I was wondering if there is an easier way to do this... 

[NotMyFault]

Coming back to my suggestion:

1. Create a rectangular shape containing 3 segments with the desired fill color and stroke (dashed, solid)
2. Reduce width of parent shape to cut of left and ride stroke
3. if you have a new font adjust height of rectangle to match characters
4. if you need a different width, adjust width
5. Then, power duplicate base line as needed e.g. times 12 or times 20

The process will take take only 1-2 minutes. If you have designer and studio link, symbols or linked layers may speed up the process.

Maybe it will be possible to dynamically & automatically adjust the height of the rectangles based on chosen font with help of constraints in Designer. I would simply extend the rectangle on the left side in the invisible / masked-out area, insert a frame text, with a chapter / pragraph style. Do this twice: once for small letters like m or e, then again for larger letters like capital E.