Soft Line Endings

[Martin N]

Hi

It would be a very good feature to add to Publisher.

Sometimes you need to force a line ending in order to make the text look better.

In past softwares, before the advent of Quark and In Design etc, you could make a soft line ending by using a two key return  that would end the line where you want to end it but also would not be active if the line length changed. The problem at present with all these various softwares is that you only have a paragraph style not a single line style.

You could introduce cmd+return which would be a clever addition and something that the other softwares do not have.

Thanks

Martin

 

[Old Bruce]

Try Shift + Return.

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, Martin N said:

You could introduce cmd+return which would be a clever addition and something that the other softwares do not have.

In the Affinity apps, Cmd+Return (or Ctrl+Enter on Windows) converts the selected text to curves/outlines.

[Seneca]

2 hours ago, Martin N said:

In past softwares, before the advent of Quark and In Design etc, you could make a soft line ending by using a two key return  that would end the line where you want to

I have campaigned for a similar feature a few moths ago. I called it sense line but nothing came out of it. You could add your voice of support for this feature if you feel strongly about it as I do.

You can add soft line return using Control+Return in Publisher. I remapped it to Shfit+Return to keep the same key combination as in inDesign.

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, Seneca said:

I have campaigned for a similar feature a few moths ago. I called it sense line but nothing came out of it. You could add your voice of support for this feature if you feel strongly about it as I do

But your feature request was not about soft-returns, which (as you just mentioned) already exist in Publisher. It was about allowing hanging indentations on individual lines within a paragraph.

[Seneca]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

It was about allowing hanging indentations on individual lines within a paragraph.

 

1 hour ago, Seneca said:

I have campaigned for a similar feature a few moths ago.

You are partially right. I said I campaigned for a similar feature not the same, though. 

I hope that it will be eventually noticed by the devs though. It would be a feature that no other software offers a the moment as far as I am aware.