Para. shading margin problems - top buffer, lines
Posted: 2013-01-25 16:31:32
Hi,
I'm having a problem which I'll upload a screenshot of.
Description:
For one chapter of this book, I'm making a colored background with lines around it to hold my text. In other words a text box, but I'm not using text boxes because I want footnotes to work and I want all linking to work.
I color my background yellow and put a 1-point line around the paragraphs, without using the middle line, so I get a box around all the text on one page.
Looks good except:
Two problems with this:
1. I can offset the text horizontally from my bounding box line using the paragraph 'Padding', but when I use the vertical padding, it doesn't work at the top or bottom of a new page. The text hugs right up against the top of the bounding box line. Looks bad. Same at the bottom.
2. The bounding box lines sometimes appear at the top and bottom and sometimes they don't. They seem to disappear behind the document edge, but it's not consistent when they'll do this.
The first problem is the big one. How can I get more space at the top and bottom, so there's a buffer with my background between the text and the bounding box line?
See screenshot, which I hope I can get uploaded.
I'm having a problem which I'll upload a screenshot of.
Description:
For one chapter of this book, I'm making a colored background with lines around it to hold my text. In other words a text box, but I'm not using text boxes because I want footnotes to work and I want all linking to work.
I color my background yellow and put a 1-point line around the paragraphs, without using the middle line, so I get a box around all the text on one page.
Looks good except:
Two problems with this:
1. I can offset the text horizontally from my bounding box line using the paragraph 'Padding', but when I use the vertical padding, it doesn't work at the top or bottom of a new page. The text hugs right up against the top of the bounding box line. Looks bad. Same at the bottom.
2. The bounding box lines sometimes appear at the top and bottom and sometimes they don't. They seem to disappear behind the document edge, but it's not consistent when they'll do this.
The first problem is the big one. How can I get more space at the top and bottom, so there's a buffer with my background between the text and the bounding box line?
See screenshot, which I hope I can get uploaded.