Hi Art, Les, and all, Winfried off list also pointed out to me how the way to use em-dash or en-dash here.
This solution is nearly good enough, There is one small problem: the resulting leader does not quite begin at the left margin. I suppose that this is because a whole number of dashes doesn't exactly fit to the flow width, so there is a little space left over at the start of the line. I found a solution for this, but it is not optimal: place a stretched em-dash at the start of the line (i.e., before the tab that creates the leader). I say that this is not optimal because it will require additional manual work, and there are hundreds of cases. Is there a better way of ensuring that the leader starts flush with the left margin? Cheers, Michael On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote: > On FM 8, I can set an m-dash as the leading character for a right tab > by inserting it in text and copy-and-pasting it into the Leading > character field (or use Lester's character string). If the m-dashes > don't connect, it'll be more complicated, but not bad. On the Font tab > for the paragraph, set the spread to -20% to eliminate the gaps. > > This creates a problem though -- it'll also squish the text characters. > > To fix this, create a new character tag that has all properties set to > As Is except the Spread -- which you leave at 0. Apply it to the text > in your leading tag, and it should revert the text to normal > appearance. You may be able to automate this using the Autonumbering > tab to set the character tag -- I didn't test that part of it. > > Art > > Art Campbell > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? art.campbell at gmail.com > ?"... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 > Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?No disclaimers apply. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? DoD 358 > > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk > <michael.kerrisk at googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a simple question (I think). I Would like to create a visual >> effect (that will be repeatedly used) where a some text on a line is >> tabbed to the right margin, and preceded by an unbroken line that sits >> at the mid-level of the characters in the text. Roughly it would look >> like this: >> >> ?------------------------------------------ mytext >> >> where the final "t" falls at the right margin. The idea is that the >> line should be unbroken (unlike my ASCII line above), as one might get >> by splicing together a series of en- or em-dashes. >> >> I can get something close to this effect using a Right Tab, and >> specifying the leader character as underscore (_): >> >> ?________________________ mytext >> >> But the problem is that the line falls at the bottom on the >> characters, when I want it in the middle. >> >> I don't seem to be able to specify an en- or em-dash as the leader >> character for the tab. But perhaps I missed something. Is this >> possible (and will it produce the result I want)? Failing that, is >> there another way of achieving the kind of effect I'm describing? >> >> I am using FrameMaker 7.2. (If what I'm wanting to do is possible only >> in a later version of FrameMaker, that would be interesting to know.) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. >> >> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >> or visit >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >> > -- Watch my book progress to publication! http://blog.man7.org/
