iaing Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Columns in text boxes is good, but option to Span columns, so that a title can span the 2 columns of text it's above, without having to make a separate text box for the title please. 3darkman, Burny, Wosven and 27 others 28 2 Quote MacBook Pro M1 Max, macOS 12.6.1 Monterey Affinity Designer : 2.0 Affinity Photo: 2.0, Affinity Publisher: 2.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjk Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Yes, count me also as requester for that feature : span title or any paragraph from 2 to all columns of the text frame. Rich313, Tom Schülke, Publos and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stmartin Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Yes, please do this. Clayton King 1 Quote iMac 27" with macOS Mojave (German) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyWalk Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 Yes, please Quote iOs: iPad Pro 12.9", Affinity Photo, Designer; Mac: Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 Span attribute in paragraph style options would be great. Old Bruce, ffca and Toshchak Pёs 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 +1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish HT Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 +1 from me too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriandw Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Yes please. It's a very useful feature for a heading or title to span several columns of a text box. InDesign can do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 +1 Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 - 2 GB Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Double boot Mac OS Big Sur 11.6.5 and Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.00 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondze Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Select the cells, right-click and choose "Merge Cells" worf2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriandw Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 3 hours ago, fde101 said: Select the cells, right-click and choose "Merge Cells" @fde101Are you thinking of tables? I'm familiar with using merge cells for a table. But here I'm talking about a two-column text frame. When I get to a break in a story, I would like the heading for the new chapter to span both columns and all the text for the previous chapter be above the heading and all the text for the new chapter below the heading. InDesign works like that. Everything else about Affinity Publisher is looking good but I would miss that ability. The alternative is to break the page frame manually but that means more manual effort resizing frames if I go back and add text to the previous chapter . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 20 minutes ago, Adriandw said: ...But here I'm talking about a two-column text frame. When I get to a break in a story, I would like the heading for the new chapter to span both columns and all the text for the previous chapter be above the heading and all the text for the new chapter below the heading. InDesign works like that... And span columns isn't just useful for headings. They can also be used for pull-quotes and more. sfriedberg, PaoloT, garrettm30 and 9 others 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 36 minutes ago, Adriandw said: Are you thinking of tables? Sorry, yes, I misread and thought the question was about tables. For normal text box columns this has been requested before but is not available yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriandw Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 51 minutes ago, fde101 said: Sorry, yes, I misread and thought the question was about tables. For normal text box columns this has been requested before but is not available yet. When you wrote "is not available yet" does that mean you expect it will be available at some time? THat would be good to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 4 minutes ago, Adriandw said: When you wrote "is not available yet" does that mean you expect it will be available at some time? THat would be good to know. No one but Serif knows what will be on the roadmap at this time. Once APub is released, there will be a roadmap, though. Then we'll all know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 i am in this too.... implement it please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 On 8/30/2018 at 7:09 AM, iaing said: Columns in text boxes is good, but option to Span columns, so that a title can span the 2 columns of text it's above, without having to make a separate text box for the title please. On 9/1/2018 at 1:22 PM, Fixx said: Span attribute in paragraph style options would be great. I think that for this to work properly and have the needed versatility it would have to be a Paragraph Style option, put it in with Baseline Grid in Text Styles. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.6.9 Affinity Designer 2.2.0 | Affinity Photo 2.2.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.2.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 17 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I think that for this to work properly and have the needed versatility it would have to be a Paragraph Style option, put it in with Baseline Grid in Text Styles. As a paragraph style, yes. But no need for the baseline grid being involved if not wanted/desired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriandw Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 2 hours ago, MikeW said: 3 hours ago, Old Bruce said: I think that for this to work properly and have the needed versatility it would have to be a Paragraph Style option, put it in with Baseline Grid in Text Styles. As a paragraph style, yes. But no need for the baseline grid being involved if not wanted/desired. Agree, yes it should be a paragraph style, doesn't need to be linked with Baseline. The InDesign implementation uses the paragraph settings panel and that works for me icreate, mackleys and Mike W077 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 I only said Baseline Grid because it is only a little checkbox all on it's lonesome. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.6.9 Affinity Designer 2.2.0 | Affinity Photo 2.2.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.2.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffca Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Very important feature, +1 for it to be implemented! There are many situations in which it is necessary to split part of a text frame into 2 columns, or to span a 2 column layout periodically with a single heading. Both are needed Mike W077 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Hermon Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 YES. Spanning columns is a great feature in Adobe InDesign and should be incorporated in Affinity Publisher. PLEASE do include this in the next Beta or final version. Mike W077 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 2 hours ago, Graham Hermon said: Spanning columns is a great feature in Adobe InDesign This feature is also available in QuarkXpress. Unfortunately, if you have a ruler above or below or both in your heading then making it span columns makes it loose your rulers. That's unfortunate. Unless that was fixed recently. Quote 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.3. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 16 minutes ago, Seneca said: This feature is also available in QuarkXpress. Unfortunately, if you have a ruler above or below or both in your heading then making it span columns makes it loose your rulers. That's unfortunate. Unless that was fixed recently. I assume your "rulers" = "rules" It's always worked in Q since the feature was available. It's just that for rules to always appear at column tops (and perhaps for spans), one needs to use discrete offset values instead of the default percentages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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