it's not a new feature, it's already context-aware. The program knows that the item selected is a list because when selecting a bulleted list in inDesign that's what happens. perhaps I haven't been clear and simple enough in my explanation of how I would envision a more intuitive UI which would make for a more friendly UX. Looks like we have a case of "what we have here is a failure to communicate" LOL!. it's not by some magic spell that the program would know "what I want" nor I mentioned keyboard shortcuts to perform "some sort of treatment" to the text. Maybe I should've been more specific and thorough, my bad. On that note I am quite aware of the differenced between inDesign and MSWord as someone who has been working in DTP though that's not a daily activity at this time I don't "want" anithing in particular, much less turning inDesign into MS Word I do believe UX could be improved making it more intuitive while keeping the advanced features of Style libraries that can be applied across pages of a large project.
5" hanging indent and an Arabic number, and when you hit the return key, a second paragraph style with a 1" hanging indent and a lower-case Roman number would be applied to that subsequent paragraph. For example, in a numbered list, you can make a paragraph style with a. Which two objects do you mean?īy the way, are you using paragraph styles, or just applying the bullets with local overrides to the text you already have? If the former, you might get better control with the latter. How would the program know what you want? Would you want specific keystrokes to invoke some sort of treatment to your text? The inspector would have a way to not only let the user specify color and size, but would do the same for the index number of the list, allowing in addition to also set the starting index number, set increment to create non-sequential indexes, set index type (regular or roman numerals for instance).Īre you wanting it to work like MS Word, where tabbing over will automatically create a roman numbered list and two tabs will create a lettered list (or one tab will be a bullet and two will be a hollow bullet)? If so, you might want to use a word processor instead of a page layout program (which really are two different tools for two different jobs). If it was a numbered list the same should be true. setting attributes independently for text area and bullet list. Such an inspector would allow separate control over the two objects for each the user could change color, size, character (to be used as bullet symbol), font, indentation, baseline shift (not just super/sub script), leading, tracking. Selecting the bulleted list the program would be context-aware and will know that's a bulleted list so the inspector in the UI would allow controlling both the object composing that list: bullets and characters. I'd like to be able to select the text and bullet points and specify their attribute without hoops and loops required in the process being illustrated by the very helpful Nisly Nils Wasn't really asking for any follow-up help, but since you ask (thanks). Apply the style to the bulleted list by highlighting the entire list and clicking the newly created style, ie.Go to the "Bullets and Numbering" option and click the dropdown labeled "Character Style" and choose "RED".
In the Paragraph Styles palette, with the bulleted list still selected, click the "New Paragraph Style" button.After typing out your bulleted list in black, select the entire list.Create the Bulleted List Paragraph Style.Go to the "Character Color" option and choose the red swatch.Double click on the new character style to edit it.In Character Styles palette, click the "New Character Style" button.Create a character style whose color is the desired bullet color (red in this case).You can, of course, swap out the colors to suit your needs. Just to clarify, here are the steps for creating a bulleted list with red bullets and black text.
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