In this topic we will show you how to to display the 23/30 and 24/31 doubled days in MiniCalendars using native formatting which is common to both QuarkXPress and InDesign.

Text Formatting

When you select Native Formatting in the list of 5-week options, a dialog comes-up to let you specify the formatting of the date above, the separator, and the date below, using all the formatting options available in the text formatting editor.

Kerning

Additionally, you can specify the kerning to use within the date above and the date below, as well as the kerning to use between these numbers and the separator.

As shown in the middle and right-most images on the right, the use of kerning can make the resulting combined dates look much better.

➢The separator is one character, usually a font slash (/). If you do not use a slash, or any character, then you need to specify a space (you cannot specify a blank for the separator, as the separator character is used as part of the 4 kerning values specified by the 23/30 and 24/31 native formatting dialog).

Note that the kerning values of the parts of either the 23/30 or the 24/31 combined dates must be set within the combined dates dialog above, and not in the text formatting editor (where the kerning option will be unavailable in any case).

Skewing the Separator

Often the angle of the separator looks wrong when used as is in 23/30 and 24/31 doubled days, as can be seen in the left and middle example on the right, where the example on the right shows the effect of a 15 degree skew applied to the / separator in InDesign.

•When using InDesign, you can specify that the separator, usually a / front slash, be skewed by a specific angle.

•If you are using QuarkXPress, then you can get an approximation to the skewing effect by setting the format of the / separator in italics. If you use a Skew value different from 0 in a QuarkXPress script, the error message 185140 will be generated by QuarkXPress.

Note that the skewing value of the combined dates separator must be set within the combined dates dialog above, and not in the text formatting editor (where the skew option will be unavailable in the case of the separator).

Topic 185115, last updated on 08-Jun-2024