Cedric Sagne wrote: > Hi > > I was reading about hanging punctuation (see the link), which is just > one refinement similar to capital caps. > A workaround is available by defining a paragraph style with an > indentation for the main text but not for the first line. > Is there a wider voice for something more automated? > > Not sure I would consider this a "workaround" -- it's how you do this. As your example shows, this is not likely to be something that can be simply automated -- the left double quotes are larger than they should be for the text size (see the right double quotes at the end). I didn't find that making a hanging indent of a few points was so difficult, and it would need to be customized for various fonts and font sizes anyway. > http://desktoppub.about.com/od/typelayout/ss/hangingquotes.htm > > Also, on the GUI side, I would really save time with a shortcut from the > properties palette to edit colours and text styles. Are there more > people around who agree with me? > A bit more explanation of what you want here would help. Edit > Paragraph Styles doesn't work? You can set a keyboard shortcut if you wish...
Greg
