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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Aug 19, 2013 6:39AM

Hi Bevi,

in InDesign it will require some annoying manual work but can be done - one example:
put the run -in heading in its own text frame (can be part of the complete text chain), put that text frame on top of the text frame containing the continuation, make the text in that frame wrap around the frame used for the run-in heading; adjust the size of the small text frame containing the run=in heading to the proper size.

Disclaimer: this proposal is not elegant! ;-)

Maybe once Adobe takes their multi-channel publishing starting from InDesign beyond tablet centric fixed layout thinking, we can hope for advanced style sheet options, where a paragraph does not have to start on a new line…. (but just continue where the previous paragraph stopped)

Olaf


Am 17 Aug 2013 um 18:48 schrieb Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> Thanks, Patarick. That looks like it would work in HTML and eventually in EPUB3 (which is based on HTML5 and CSS).
>
> In this case, these publications are designed in Adobe InDesign and converted to PDF where <DIV>, .classes, and CSS controls are not available.
>
> So it looks like the InDesign layout won't be able to format and convert an inline head for the PDF.
>
> — Bevi
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> Perhaps enclosing them in a container and making them inline?
>
> <style>
> .runin h2 { font-size: 1em; }
> .runin h2, .runin p { display:inline; }
> .runin h2::after { content:" - "; }
> .runin { padding-bottom: 1em;}
> </style>
>
> <div class="runin"><h2>Objective</h2>
> <p> This report presents national estimates of blue widgets.</p> </div> <div class="runin"> <h2>Methods</h2> <p>Estimates are based on data collected during 2012.</p> </div>
>
> P
>
> On 17/08/2013 05:44, Chagnon | PubCom wrote:
>> My government clients use a visual design technique called inline
>> headings or run-in heads. I'm trying to develop a way to make them accessible.
>>
>> Sample of 2 paragraphs in the original format follows. The first word
>> of each paragraph is visually formatted to stand out, either with
>> bold, italics, or color.
>>
>> Objective-This report presents national estimates of blue widgets
>>
>> Methods-Estimates are based on data collected during 2012.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think they should be formatted as headings, H2, but because the
>> words "objective" and "methods" are part of a larger paragraph of body
>> text, they can't be formatted as headings. Headings are formatted for
>> the entire paragraph, not a partial paragraph.
>>
>> Is there any tag that's appropriate for these "mini headings" at the
>> beginning of a paragraph of body text?
>>
>>
>>
>> Another option is to split them into a heading paragraph and a body
>> text paragraph, but this is counter to US federal publishing
>> guidelines. Sample of this method (with the tags) follows:
>>
>> <H2> Objective
>>
>> <P> This report presents national estimates of blue widgets.
>>
>> <H2> Methods
>>
>> <P> Estimates are based on data collected during 2012.
>>
>>
>>
>> Your thoughts?
>>
>> - Bevi Chagnon
>>
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