Missing: Right indent Tab (Shift-Tab)

[postmadesign]

Something I cannot find in Publisher is a right Indent Tab (Shortcut in indesign Shift-Tab) Which I use quite often in indesign. Why is this missing, and will you be adding this?

[MickRose]

On the tab ruler, make it a right tab, move the tab to the top line, move to right. Right clicking has similar options.

[postmadesign]

Thanks, I kind of found out right now too. I just though there would be a quicker way, but it will do

[claidheamdanns]

I agree on this. InDesign has both a Right-Aligned Tab, and a Right Indent Tab, which is very useful. 

I brought an InDesign document that we just printed into Affinity, just to practice on, while it was fresh in my mind, and I notice that all Right Indent Tabs were missing, including their leaders. I had to go into the tabs bar and rebuild them using a Right-Align tab.

Another thing that was broken in this same regard was the hanging punctuation, which resulted in the typesetting of the list looking less professional. I did find where I could fix this with "optical alignemnt," which ended up looking better than the INDD doc, by the way. But still, it didn't do this automagically, per the INDD doc, but had to be manually fixed after import.

[walt.farrell]

This discussion was quite old, and Publisher now has support for right-indent tab, @claidheamdanns, either using Shift+Tab or via Text > Insert > Spaces and Tabs > Right Indent Tab.

I'm not sure what it supports when you're importing IDML documents, though.

[claidheamdanns]

Okay thanks, I see that I can now add a "shift tab" right indent tab, after importing the document. But, it still doesn't come in with the IDML import. And it lost all the leaders for the right indent tab, too. I was able to add those back in using a right align tab.

Right now, we have a slow time at work, so I'm mainly just seeing what "breaks" when I bring an InDesign document into Affinity Publisher. We believe that Affinity will eventually be the replacement for Adobe, especially among freelance graphic designers who can't afford to "rent" Adobe software. So, we want to: 1. be aware of what is going on in AP files, and its limitations, and 2. be knowledgeable about how to use the suite of apps, so that customers trust us to help walk them through things they can't figure out.

We have some customers who still use that other Publisher (ack!) by Microsoft, and we would LOVE for them to move over to Affinity, and provide us with more professional files from which to print. But we know we will need to be ready to hold their hand and walk them through it.

[walt.farrell]

54 minutes ago, claidheamdanns said:

Okay thanks, I see that I can now add a "shift tab" right indent tab, after importing the document. But, it still doesn't come in with the IDML import. And it lost all the leaders for the right indent tab, too. I was able to add those back in using a right align tab.

You should start your own topic, either in the Questions forum or (perhaps better) in the Bugs forum, assuming you're using the released version of Publisher. Or, if you're using the beta, you should start it in the appropriate Beta forum.