Defining paragraph settings in Publisher

[Mark Church Warden]

Hi,

I would like to format a piece of text so that it has a header non justified and then on the line immediately below it (no line break) to have fully justified text but each time I try to apply justification to the selected text it gets force onto the preceding lines too. Is there a way I can achieve this?

Thanks.

[Fixx]

Justification is paragraph level attribute. I would make the first line a separate paragraph.

[Mark Church Warden]

40 minutes ago, Fixx said:

Justification is paragraph level attribute. I would make the first line a separate paragraph.

How can I achieve this without adding a line break?

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, Mark Church Warden said:

How can I achieve this without adding a line break?

To separate two pieces of text like that you need to have either a line break or a paragraph break, I think. Otherwise they won't be on separate lines; they'll be on the same line.

Why not simply press Enter so they are separate paragraphs?

[Mark Church Warden]

If simply pressing Enter was the solution I wouldn't have posted the question, the formatting is important to me as it originates from previous files, I merely want to duplicate what had been set up in Scribus. I'd hoped a Shift/Enter would work but that too remains in the same paragraph, my only thoughts now are to indeed press enter and try to reduce the blank line height to a point where it is no-longer visible as a separate line, is this possible?

[Chris26]

2 hours ago, Mark Church Warden said:

my only thoughts now are to indeed press enter and try to reduce the blank line height to a point where it is no-longer visible as a separate line, is this possible?

No doubt a suggestion that is useless, since I have no idea the length of text that you are talking about, but if it is a case of one header and then a body of text, why not just make two text frames?  And position according to taste?  As said I bet you have a good reason why not to do this, but I had to suggest it.

[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, Mark Church Warden said:

my only thoughts now are to indeed press enter and try to reduce the blank line height to a point where it is no-longer visible as a separate line, is this possible?

Set Space before and Space after to 0 (zero) in your paragraph style for both paragraphs, this is in the Spacing section

. Have the leading set to the size of the Baseline as well, not default.

[Mark Church Warden]

Thank you Old Bruce, that has done the trick, it would be good if I could save this somehow to easily apply for each of my header paragraphs. I'm struggling somewhat to get my head around how Character, Paragraph and Text Styles all work together or as it seems in my case at the moment against each other!

[walt.farrell]

19 minutes ago, Mark Church Warden said:

 it would be good if I could save this somehow to easily apply for each of my header paragraphs. I'm struggling somewhat to get my head around how Character, Paragraph and Text Styles all work together or as it seems in my case at the moment against each other!

You would save it by updating the appropriate paragraph text style, and applying that style to your header paragraphs.

If you want your changes to apply to additional documents that you create, you can also update the defaults to include your changes, using the hamburger menu on the Text Styles studio panel.