thomaso Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 What is the purpose of the cursor marker in a text ruler? – At first I thought it would inform me about the horizontal distance of the text cursor to the left edge of the text frame. Meanwhile it seems to have something else in mind. But what? Where it works charming for tabs & indent positions, the text cursor marker confuses me: I'd expect it just to mirror my text cursor vertically into the ruler. Instead it does something I need help for understanding. I noticed only that both the font size and the frame width do influence this marker's position – but in which way? Could someone explain please, what the cursor marker does mark in the following examples? The distance of the markers one to the other remains the same but with an offset: > The markers offset can become massive, both to the right or left of the frame/ruler: Influence of frame width: – Or is it simply a bug? 170192 text ruler cursor marker.afpub Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 While I don't know for sure, if it is displaying outside of the ruler, I would expect that to be a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 >> if it is displaying outside of the ruler, I would expect that to be a bug. @fde101, - what about inside but with offset? Do you get similar results - or does it work for you, within the ruler only? Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 Interesting... In a document of my own I do not see the issue. I downloaded yours and duplicated it right away. I tried adding a new text box to yours that I downloaded and at first it did not show the issue, but if I switched to another text box and back then the issue showed up. This did not happen after multiple attempts with my own document so I'm not sure what is triggering that behavior in your document, but it definitely smells like a bug to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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