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Text highlighting with a custom edge

Text highlighting with a custom edge

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Text highlighting with a custom edge

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- [Instructor] Hi, I'm Nigel French, welcome to Type Tips. This week I'd like to show you how to create this look, text highlighting with a custom edge. This was suggested by an article on "InDesignSecrets" by Stephano Bernardi and you can look at his solution right here, I've adapted it for a slightly different usage. Now while it's true that you can create text reversing out of a solid bar and have that be part of a continuous text flow using paragraph rules or paragraph shading, what you can't do is add this custom edge. This custom edge comes from combining a paragraph rule with an anchored object. So I'm going to move to my starting point, and I have a paragraph style applied to the days of the week, I'm going to come and edit that paragraph style. I'll come to paragraph rules. Now, I'm using rules as opposed to shading, because with a rule you can specify the exact weight. With paragraph shading, you specify the…

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