Lonely Button

[Seneca]

Does anyone know why we have this button in the Paragraph Styles -> Bullets and Numbering?

So far I've been unable to make it work and wonder what its purpose in life is.

 

[Distill7]

It works for me, you can place a text instead of a bullet.

For example:

• Publisher
• Photo
• Designer

Can be turned to the following if you type Affinity in that text case

Affinity Publisher

Affinity Photo

Affinity Designer

[Aammppaa]

On my machine (Windows 7) the button is "More…" rather than simply "…"

It is greyed out / unavailable until I select Bullet from the "Type" drop-down.

Then it turns white, and when clicked will lets me select other, less common glyphs from a font.

[Alfred]

Just now, Aammppaa said:

On my machine (Windows 7) the button is "More…" rather than simply "…"

It is greyed out / unavailable until I select Bullet from the "Type" drop-down.

Then it turns white, and when clicked will lets me select other, less common glyphs from a font.

Ditto!

One slight problem I have is the Edit Text Style dialog being so tall that it opens with the title bar almost completely off the top of my laptop screen, and I have to drag it down a little.

[Seneca]

44 minutes ago, toutou123 said:

It works for me, you can place a text instead of a bullet.

Just reset Publisher and now it works. Phew.

[Distill7]

18 minutes ago, Seneca said:

Just reset Publisher and now it works. Phew.

Well, I said that it works just fine, Id on't need ho reset it.

[Seneca]

38 minutes ago, toutou123 said:

Well, I said that it works just fine, Id on't need ho reset it.

Sorry, what I meant was:

I have just reset Publisher and now it works for me too. 

[dominik]

2 hours ago, Aammppaa said:

and when clicked will lets me select other, less common glyphs from a font.

This is the interesting side door to all kinds of bullets:

1. One can use one of many symbol fonts to choose all kinds of shapes.
2. One could create an own symbol font with custom bullets. (I do not know very much about font creation. But there are some specialists in the forum who could provide more information).

d.

[fde101]

Yep, now we just need color font support and we can get multi-colored bullets working...

[Alfred]

7 minutes ago, fde101 said:

Yep, now we just need color font support and we can get multi-colored bullets working...

+1 for this — especially on iPad, where iOS gives me a tantalizing glimpse of what’s theoretically possible but the Affinity apps don’t let me use it yet!

[fde101]

On 6/18/2019 at 10:54 AM, Alfred said:

iOS gives me a tantalizing glimpse of what’s theoretically possible

QuarkXPress supports them, a few examples on this page: https://www.planetquark.com/2018/02/24/color-fonts

 

Curiously, this page lists Affinity Designer as supporting SVG color fonts, but I don't believe that is accurate?  https://www.colorfonts.wtf/