anto Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Is it possible to create such construction, using initial words? Text: Text, text: Text text text text text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 @anto, I'm unclear as to what you are actually looking to do. You ask "Is it possible to create such construction...?". You then give an example indicating that you can create such a construction. Could you be more specific. John Alfred 1 Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 When you say ‘create such construction’, are you perhaps referring to the styles (i.e. black bold italic text up to and including the first colon, red italic text up to and including the second colon, and black roman text thereafter)? anto 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 10 minutes ago, John Rostron said: I'm unclear as to what you are actually looking to do. You ask "Is it possible to create such construction...?". You then give an example indicating that you can create such a construction. Could you be more specific. I created this construction manually. I'm wondering if it's possible to create something like this using styles and initial words, that is, choose a paragraph, a style, and everything will turn out the way I want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 2 minutes ago, Alfred said: When you say ‘create such construction’, are you perhaps referring to the styles (i.e. black bold italic text up to and including the first colon, red italic text up to and including the second colon, and black roman text thereafter)? yes Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 1 hour ago, anto said: Is it possible to create such construction, using initial words? Text: Text, text: Text text text text text. It would be possible with GREP styles (which imho aren't available in Affinity yet). – Alternatively and less precise with a workaround by combining Initial Words + Drop Caps, which limits your pattern to a certain number of characters (for drop caps) and would require an extra, hidden (invisible, no-width) character as initial "End-Characater" if you require the use of two ':' in your pattern. Below a V1 example without an end char / ignoring the ':'. initial words & dropcaps.m4v Accordingly this workaround also fails regarding two different fonts AND colours: anto 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbrother Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 @anto Your construction uses two character styles, so I'm sorry but this is not possible. The "Initial Words feature" allows you to use only one character style to style a specific number of initial words. Additionally, it allows you to specify which characters can be used to automatically end the initial word formatting. And if the formatting ends at these characters, it cannot be resumed again. I wrote as clearly as I could. What you want to achieve requires GREP styles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Another workaround could use two separate Paragraph Styles, one with a leading = 0, as demonstrated in this sample video (for another approach): anto 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 Thanks for your ideas. Your ideas gave me another one. 2024-04-28 11-50-37.mp4 thomaso and Alfred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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