Hanging punctuation problems

Question

I have been using a paragraph style that uses a nested style and tab for taking notes, indicating the page number and then the note (see below)
My probelm is that for some reason, punctuation on the first line do not hang properly. Optical margin alignment works fine for the rest of the lines.
I've actually had this issue in other documents that don't use tabs as well.
Anyone have any insight on how to fix this?
Thanks,
Kate

Answer 1

I presume the paragraph style also has a left inident to match your tab and a hanging indent for the first line. Your punctuation on the first line is not the first character in the line and is not on the edge, so there is no reason why it WOULD hang.
The only way I can think of off the top of my head to achive the look you want is to use a an anchored object for the number and make the paragraph indent even. The anchor point probably also cannot be the first character in the line.
Well,  just thought of something else that looks like it will work, if you have CS4. Forget thet tab after the number and replace it with a forced line break. Create a character style that changes the leading to 0, and use line styles in your paragraph style to apply none through the first line, then the zero-lead style through one line. You still need the paragraph indent and hanging first line, but since the punctuation is now technically on the second line it should hang.