Idea Delivered

This is being delivered in XPP 9.4.

Request to add color and pattern to the underline rules in the division ticket

I had a client style that included underlined text, however the actual text had to be 100% black and the underline had to be 75% black (this was outside a table). Ideally, in the text rule styles section of the JT/DT, two additional form fields would exist where I could specify a number from the color spec defined earlier in the job ticket as well as a pattern/shade:

Underline #1
Thickness: 0.5q
Placement: baseline
Offset (leading): none
Offset (numeric): 0.5q
Skip: nothing
Color: 1
Pattern (%): 75

I have seen this in two different client styles so far this year and he "hack" has been to enter something similar to the following (however I'm hopin for something a little cleaner):

{text}<co;75><ul;1><co;1>The xybase2 style<ul;0> bundle provides a variety of page and typographic styles.

Thomas Mangan

  • This will be added for XPP 9.4. The underline color and pattern will come from the Division Ticket and if the value is "default" it will get the value from the Job  Ticket.

    But wait there's more....

    For compatibility purposes the behavior will be "active", which means that the color comes from the current composition color. Changing the color and pattern in the DT/JT will override the current composition color and set the value directly.

    But wait there's more....

    An underline style has also been added that will allow different types of single/double rules. So there will be "solid" (default) and variants on "double", "dashed" and "dotted" lines. These are the exact same box rule styles that were added for tabular, solid, dbl121, dash12, dot12, etc...