Minicalendar Dates Framing and Background Shadingrequires QuarkXPress 2017-2026 or InDesign |
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The generally available text background shading and framing options are expanded for mini-calendars to provide the additional possibilities of creating, modifying, deleting or keeping objects located at the position of each date, thus allowing the easy creation of mini-calendars such as:
At the top of the text background shading and framing options dialog, is a radio-group that lets you choose the type of framing that you wish to apply. The 5 options are:
| Text | Use this option to frame or shade textually days of a mini-calendar, as shown in the left-most example above, where the frame/shade of each date depends on the number's textual width which will vary depending on the font size and the actual number being framed/shaded (this option is only available when using QuarkXPress, as text shading and text framing are not available in InDesign). |
| Box Create | Use this option to frame or shade days of a mini-calendar, by creating fixed-size shaded and or framed rectangular boxes, as shown in the second example from the left, above. |
| Box Keep | Use this option to highlight days of a mini-calendar, by keeping (ie. not deleting) any object located at the specified date's position in the GridTemplate on a particular layer, as shown in the third example from the left, above. |
| Box Modify | Use this option to highlight days of a mini-calendar, by modifying the frame and background attributes of boxes located at the specified date's position in the GridTemplate on a particular layer, as shown in the right-most example, above. |
| Box Delete | Use this option to highlight days of a mini-calendar, by deleting any object located at the specified date's position in the GridTemplate on a particular layer, as shown in the third example from the left, above. |
The on layer and delete others settings are used for the box keep, box modify, and box delete options.
See also: advanced text formatting.
Topic 181920, last updated on 28-Mar-2024
