Allow the paragraph shading to 'knock out' paragraph border in some way for more usefullness
If I specify a border & use just the 'top' as a horizontal rule with the idea to have it appear only on either side of a line of text, there isn't an option to do that or for the shading to knock-out the 'border' or have one in front of the other so it would be handy to be able to specify that one is on top of the other & the option to knock it out or a gap size. I've achieved the desired effect in the 2nd image with a white stroke but that doesn't work well if there is a 2nd line of text - as it starts to white out the top line & then you can't get enough of a gap between the first & last words on that line.
AlleyJ
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L commented
This limitation is still relevant in current versions of InDesign. It would be very useful to have explicit stacking/z-order controls not only between Paragraph Border and Paragraph Shading, but also between the shading of consecutive paragraphs.
For example, I have a heading with an opaque white Paragraph Shading overlapping a coloured Paragraph Shading from the following paragraph. There is currently no way to make the heading shading render above the following paragraph shading, so the only workaround is to use anchored objects or manual masking.
A simple “Shading/Border: In Front / Behind” option would make these layouts fully style-driven and much more robust in long editorial documents.