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Rounded endcaps on paragraph rules

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Rounded endcaps on paragraph rules

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- [Instructor] Hi there, so we're looking at a paragraph that has two kind of special effects. Now one I've already shown in a previous video here in our course, but the other one I haven't. So the one that I've shown is this one, which is, let me zoom in a bit, a stroke that is just to the left of a paragraph, and if I hit return, you can see how the stroke grows with it. So how does that happen? Because we know that there's a rule above, but not a rule to the left, a rule to the right. And just to recap, this is done from the paragraph borders and shading. And what you do is you set all the sides to zero, except for the side that you want it to appear, to whichever weight you want. Here I have it at three points. Now there's something special about this particular border, in that it has rounded end caps, do you see that? And that's because in paragraph borders, you can choose the cap, which is kind of cool. So I chose…

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