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The enhanced text features will only appear on the ruler when you are using the
TEXT
TOOL and when the text cursor is in a text story or the text object is selected when in
the
TEXT TOOL.
In the
TEXT TOOL when you drag the margins or tabs on the ruler, you get a temporary
vertical guide to make it easier to align the tabs or margins to objects elsewhere on
the page. In addition when dragging tabs or margins, if you have magnetic snap
switched on, these will snap to each other making it easier to position tabs and
margins.
Margins and indents
Any changes you make are made to the current paragraph of text. (i.e. the paragraph
containing the text cursor) or, if you have a selected region of text, to the paragraphs
of the selected region.
You can apply changes to all text in a text story by selecting all the text within that
story ("Ctrl + A"). To change more than one text story, select the text objects while in
the
SELECTOR TOOL then change to the TEXT TOOL and make the required changes.
Left margin. Drag this to change the left margin of the text.
First line margin. Drag this to change the left margin for the first line of the
paragraph (useful for lists, as shown below).
Right margin. Drag this to change the right margin of the text.
Demonstrating the left margin and first line margin
Demonstrating a right margin
Tabs
By default, text stories are created with tabs set 0.5 cm apart. This means you can
just press "Tab" and your text will be moved along to the next tab stop. You only need
to define new tab stop positions if you want alternative tab spacing.
These default tabs are shown as faint Ls on the ruler: