Publisher text background problem

[David Brear]

Hi.

See my problem? Each line has a space at the end, but not the beginning, where I want one.

If I add a space at the beginning of the line Publisher adds it at the end of the line above. Is there a way of adding a 'fixed space' please?

Thanks in advance!

David

[GarryP]

It looks like you have used a Character Background Fill to achieve that, and that only works where you have characters. (There can’t be a character background where there is no character.)

One alternative would be to use Paragraph Decorations (via the Paragraph Panel), but that only affects whole paragraphs, not individual lines.

[David Brear]

Hi Garry — it's just a cream text box with text inside, the text background being green rather then transparent, as you say.

I'll check how Paragraph Decorations works, but just having played with it, it doesn't seem to make any difference. 

[MikeTO]

27 minutes ago, David Brear said:

See my problem? Each line has a space at the end, but not the beginning, where I want one.

If I add a space at the beginning of the line Publisher adds it at the end of the line above. Is there a way of adding a 'fixed space' please?

I can't duplicate this. If I add a space at the beginning of the line it has a background. I have Show Special Characters on here so you can see the dots where the spaces are.

[David Brear]

Thanks Mike. Interesting - that's not what I'm seeing. I'm using Publisher 2.2.1.

One thing which might be relevant is that there's an image to the right of the lines of text, not shown on my pic, but -

The image has Text Wrap Settings set to 0.2 cm Square all round.

In fact here's my file for that page -Page 16.afpub

[MikeTO]

As GarryP wrote, you can only have a background where there's a character so insert a line break at the end of each line of text and then type a space at the start of each line as shown in this file. If you also want a space at the end of the line you can add that, too.

Page 16 v2.afpub

Note that you have a darker green background applied to the last period. I'm not sure if that's intentional.

Inserting line breaks and typing these spaces is a bit tedious but most people just use the paragraph decorations feature. However, if you want a ragged right edge you have to do it the way you're doing it.

Cheers

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, David Brear said:

Each line has a space at the end, but not the beginning, where I want one.

If you turn on Show Special Characters in the file you attached & zoom far enough in on the end of the lines, you can just barely make out the symbol showing that there is a space after the last character. It's easy to miss because it is nearly the same color as the text background, but it's there, for instance at the end of "flask."

So if you do not want that extra space at the end, delete it, & similarly add ones using the method @MikeTO suggested where you do want them.

[David Brear]

Sorry guys, this only just showed up. Many thanks!