Text alignment inside custom text frame

I created a custom text frame by combining a triangle and a rectangle using Pathfinder->Add but when I added text, this is how it looked -- but I wanted it to look this way.

Ketchapay2 wrote:
Thanks! I'll try that now. UPDATE: When I applied rounded corners, it also rounded the pointer which is supposed to be sharp.
Well, that used to work, I think.
In any case, I just tried something else and it seems to work. Make the round corner text frame and the the triangle as you did before. Put the triangle BEHIND the text frame and make the shape. There is however, another potential problem to this technique -- the text will want to flow into the triangle area. I don't think this is escapable without either putting the text into a seond rectangular frame in front, or adding an empty frame in the triangular area and applying text wrap to push the text back into line.
Peter

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The Problem with the Custom Attribute is not solved, but I have now compromised with the Situation and now I am not using a Custom attribute.
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