TopLeaf: Paragraph Alignment Values?

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In the TopLeaf Help, in section 6.4.1 it indicates you can select Left, Right, Center, Justify, and {inherit}, but in the interface you can only select {inherit}, Left, and Justify. Right and Center do not display in the drop-down box, and typing in Right or Center produces an error.

Is this a known issue?

Thanks,

Robert

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[tonys]

The only context in which right and center are disabled is for list labels. This is intentional – because of the way block merging works these options would not be appropriate.

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But if you have a numbered list, you want the numbers and following decimal point to be right-aligned so they don't move into the space after the decimal point when they go double digit:
    9. loremipsum adas fortuit
  10. loremipsum adas fortuit
  11. loremipsum adas fortuit
  12. loremipsum adas fortuit

not
9. loremipsum adas fortuit
10. loremipsum adas fortuit
11. loremipsum adas fortuit
12. loremipsum adas fortuit

What's the workaround?

Thanks,

Robert

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[tonys]

This can be achieved by inserting space at the beginning of the label. For decimal lists this could be done by adding one or more figure space characters (U+2007) depending on the item number. A more general solution which handles any list style is to measure the width of the label text and calculate the appropriate space width. I've attached a stylesheet that illustrates both techniques (a PDF is included).

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