Well so far the only way I have come up with to put some white or reversed text in or overlapping a solid black rule or line is to do the following.
1. I set up a line style that is solid black and 16 points thick. In this case a black box would probably work just as well without having to use a line style. The line style may be quicker to build the shape. 2. Next I set up a paragraph style with 12 point white text, 3 point paragraph indent, and a 65% baseline shift. 3. I drew a straight line and assigned the 16 point line style to it. Then I copied and pasted the 16 point rule above the line of text that is supposed to be on top of it. The 16 point line now behaves like a piece of type. 4. I assigned the white text style to the line of text below the 16 point line. 5. I got some white text with a solid black background. It works albeit a little screwy. It may not be the easiest to do a live edit and that is where the Story Editor would be especially helpful. I haven't been able to figure anything else out so far. It would be better to assign a rule below with the offset of the rule specified to move up into the area of the type. QuarkXPress does that and believe InDesign does as well. The rule below (or above) and the white text would be all in one style. StevenD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090903/8f74a977/attachment.htm>
