Qlingo rule for formatting a centered tab position for a field

[Scott Evans]

How can I script a field to return at a given tab position?

Say I want to return a field Addr1 at a centered tab position of 6 picas. Can I do this with QLingo instead of InDesign?

[couch]

The tab position is defined in InDesign - either by overriding the selected paragraph setting, or by defining a paragraph style.

You can add the tab character to your address ADOR using qlingo:    \t & |->[address]

I am not sure that you really want to "script" the position?  Are you saying that you want the address of record 1 centered at 6 pica, and record 2 at 7 pica?

If this is what you want, you can use Adobe Tagged Text - this will give you the opportunity to change the tab position in the text file. 
For example, this qlingo:

"<UNICODE-WIN>\r\n" &

"<Version:15.1><FeatureSet:InDesign-Roman><ColorTable:=<Black:COLOR:CMYK:Process:0,0,0,1>>\r\n" &

"<DefineParaStyle:centered=<Nextstyle:centered><pTabRuler:72\,Center\,.\,0\,\;>>\r\n" &

"<ParaStyle:centered>\t" & |->[address]

defines the font face, size, color and tab position (in pts).

[Scott Evans]

My problem is that I need to eliminate tabs for unpopulated fields so that the last text line flows up under the last populated field. So my document has a maximum of 28 fields in 3 tabbed columns but if the record has only 7 of them populated then I want a line of static text to be centered under the last populated field but I can’t because the tabs for all 28 separate it. 

On Sep 15, 2021, at 5:29 PM, couch <sco...@gmail.com> wrote:

The tab position is defined in InDesign - either by overriding the selected paragraph setting, or by defining a paragraph style.

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[couch]

So, you're putting all the fields together into a text box and putting a tab in between in the document design?

Then why not test if the field has values before adding the tab? Like this:

if (IsNullOrEmpty(|->[address]))

{ "" } else { "\t" & |->[address] }

Naturally, you do that for all 28 ADOR objects and remove the manually entered tabs in the design.

[Scott Evans]

Thanks so much, I’ll try this and let you know how it works. 

On Sep 15, 2021, at 6:14 PM, couch <sco...@gmail.com> wrote:

So, you're putting all the fields together into a text box and putting a tab in between in the document design?

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