Decorating a paragraph with no content

[Tyson of the Northwest]

I have some text styles for popout text box with a background fill that spans the column. I would like to break up the content with a empty paragraph that has the background fill that spans the column and a line decoration. So I took my "box" style with the background fill, duplicated it and named it "box break". Between paragraphs of "box" I have paragraphs of "box break", but the empty box break paragraphs are not getting the background decoration.

Am I missing a trick here? I have tried inserting other whitespace characters to no effect. As soon as I do add a character the decoration fills.

[Old Bruce]

10 minutes ago, Tyson of the Northwest said:

I would like to break up the content with a empty paragraph that has the background fill that spans the column and a line decoration.

We can now use inline images, I truly think that that would better serve you.

[Tyson of the Northwest]

Where do I insert an inline image into a text frame? Or do I just place an image over the text frame and adjust the wrap settings?

[thomaso]

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Where do I insert an inline image into a text frame?

1. Open in menu "View" > "Studio" > "Pinning" panel
2. Position your graphic object near the insert point
3. Click "Insert".

Adjust the graphic itself or via panel.
To place it again at another passage just do copy/paste.

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, Tyson of the Northwest said:

Between paragraphs of "box" I have paragraphs of "box break", but the empty box break paragraphs are not getting the background decoration.

Would the checkbox "Combine Identical" do what you want?

 

[walt.farrell]

Rather than a background fill on the Paragraph Style, have you considered using a fill on the Text Frame that contains that box text.

[William Overington]

10 hours ago, Tyson of the Northwest said:

Am I missing a trick here? I have tried inserting other whitespace characters to no effect. As soon as I do add a character the decoration fills.

Which have you tried?

Have you tried using some U+2002 characters?

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf

You would need a font that has a glyph for U+2002 so that you do not get .notdef glyph displayed.

If you wish you are welcome to use this one, which I designed and produced myself.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/CHRONTXT.TTF

William

 

[Dave Harris]

Currently blank lines at the top and bottom of a run of decorated paragraphs won't get the decoration. This was a mistake which should be fixed in the next build. I hope that covers your situation.