I know I can use something like this:
"id": "hanging_indent_label",
"anchor": "Here is the first line of a hanging indent",
"method": {
"id": "label",
"position": "below",
"textAlignment": "hangingIndent",
"stop": "gap"
to get indented text like this:
but what if the text is outdented? Can I get text shifted to the left?
(cross posted from Slack by admin)
No*. Here are some alternatives, assuming you’re trying to grab some text below another line:
if you want multiple lines: use the Document Range method, which extracts any lines below the anchor line regardless of the alignment.
if you want just one line and you haven’t got a reliable match for defining a Stop for the Document Range method, you can use the Passthrough method. This would be a little complex – basically, you’d define an anchor array where the 1st match is your usual anchor, and the 2nd match is "type":"first" so that it grabs the 1st line below the anchor, regardless of horizontal alignment. Like this:
{
"fields": [
{
"id": "test_field",
"anchor": {
"match":
[
{
"type": "includes",
"text": "your anchor line",
},
{
"type": "first",
}
]
},
"method": {
"id": "passthrough",
}
}
]
}
For example, anchoring on a phone number line in order to grab an email line that’s outdented to the left from the anchor’s perspective:
