Comments on: Tab Leaders in InDesign http://quarkvsindesign.com/tips-tricks/t1/tip-o-the-day/2006/tab-leaders-in-indesign/ The Authority for News & Opinion on the War of the Desktop Publishing Giants QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:10:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Samuel John Klein http://quarkvsindesign.com/tips-tricks/t1/tip-o-the-day/2006/tab-leaders-in-indesign/#comment-21629 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:11:05 +0000 http://quarkvsindesign.com/tips-tricks/t1/tip-o-the-day/2006/tab-leaders-in-indesign/#comment-21629 An experiment I'm trying right now (inspired by your query) suggests that nested styles may hold a possible answer. Using a quick, three-line (with forced line breaks) TOC, I styled the tab leader characters (after creating the tab leader-you of course cannot style the tab leader in the creation dialog), adjusting point size and leading as appropriate (just for fun, I blew up the full-stops and had to adjust the leading way down). By styling the tab leaders and creating a paragraph style from that, I was able to incorporate that into a paragraph style. Of course, you'll probably want to create and style each line of your list as a separate paragraph because I don't know how to tell Indy to go back and loop through the nested style until you're out of lines (if you use forced-line breaks as I did). An experiment I’m trying right now (inspired by your query) suggests that nested styles may hold a possible answer.

Using a quick, three-line (with forced line breaks) TOC, I styled the tab leader characters (after creating the tab leader-you of course cannot style the tab leader in the creation dialog), adjusting point size and leading as appropriate (just for fun, I blew up the full-stops and had to adjust the leading way down).

By styling the tab leaders and creating a paragraph style from that, I was able to incorporate that into a paragraph style. Of course, you’ll probably want to create and style each line of your list as a separate paragraph because I don’t know how to tell Indy to go back and loop through the nested style until you’re out of lines (if you use forced-line breaks as I did).

]]> by: Anitra http://quarkvsindesign.com/tips-tricks/t1/tip-o-the-day/2006/tab-leaders-in-indesign/#comment-21219 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:01:43 +0000 http://quarkvsindesign.com/tips-tricks/t1/tip-o-the-day/2006/tab-leaders-in-indesign/#comment-21219 So, does anyone know a way to change the size of the leaders in the tab ruler without effecting the size of the type? Say you want to use periods, but make them smaller than the text, and you want to do this to multiple lines rather than selecting each line of periods separately? So, does anyone know a way to change the size of the leaders in the tab ruler without effecting the size of the type? Say you want to use periods, but make them smaller than the text, and you want to do this to multiple lines rather than selecting each line of periods separately?

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