InDesign quick question
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- ismith
I'm wondering what the easiest way to do this would be (aside from manually, which I might end up doing just since the document isn't too long):
Set up a list so that instead of being numbered or bulleted, the bottom of each list item is underlined. I already have a paragraph style controlling my text, and I noticed that under the "bullets and numbering" option I could [I think] have it list with a blank character and set up a character style to underline... but that just seems wrong (and I haven't really dealt with character styles before). I suppose another way would be to make a table with a row for each item, but that would be quite cumbersome.
- max_prophet0
Just use soft returns on the list and then a hard return at the end styled with your underline?
- would lose the bullet character then, wouldn't it?Amicus
- How would I go about applying it only to the last line, as one of the items is multiple lines.ismith
- he doesn't want bullets as far as I can tell.max_prophet
- the rule after will only be applied to hard returns.max_prophet
- I reckon max's suggestion would work nicely.pylon
- or use soft returns and the rule below in the bullet/list stylesheet.johndiggity
- Amicus0
I think creating a character style with the underline would be faster, and easier to remove if you end up hating it.
Just triple click to select the last line of the list and hit the shortcut you defined for the character style. Easy.
- gramme0
What max said.
- MrT0
"the bottom of each list item is underlined" in your original post, but you actually want just the last item underlined?
Which is it?
I don't think InDesign treats lists as grouped entities, they are just individual paragraphs with an indent, lead character etc. So, InDesign will never know which is your last list item.
Make a copy of the list style with a paragraph rule and apply to your last list item. If you don't like the rule you can always take that out...
- ismith0
thanks guys, I got it to work. not sure if I'll keep it, but I was able to do it with them fancy nested styles
- Amicus0
shit... I wrote about 3 paragraphs explaining how to do the nested styles/ character styles the whole shebang... then deleted it and wrote the post above... should have posted it anyways...