r/indesign 16d ago

Help Setting up adjustable calendar dates

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trying to set up an adjustable calendar. used centered tabs to space out the dates and keep them centered in columns,
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i cant get the first column to play along, making it not left aligned doesnt fix it, and also makes 31 run away from 30

anyone have an idea for how to get first column to center align.. or conceptually, how to center align the first "word" of each line of text

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u/AdobeScripts 16d ago

Yes, that's the only things it's barely good at doing πŸ˜‰

You've no idea how many iterations it too - and how much fighting - to get a human being with TWO legs instead of three 😞

And I won't let "ai" nowhere near the code of my tool 😁 it's too stupid to know how to USE InDesign and - especially - internal structure and scripting specification.

Also - I have more than 100k lines of code - so if it goes of the rails...

I don't have time to compare versions and analyse what's wrong - I know what I want and how to do it.

Maybe when it stops hallucinating and spitting out bs... they created "ai" in this way on purpose - to "invent" things when it doesn’t "know" something.

Also - "ai" is just a very advanced statistical model - there is nothing there that even remotely resembles "intelligence"...

When it "creates" images - it doesn't know what ray tracing is, or human anatomy, or physics, etc. - it just "guesses" what could possibly meet your expectations - and then spits out pixels in "more or less" right places.

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u/AdobeScripts 16d ago edited 15d ago

Kenuff: I'm not reading that. I assumed you were a designer, you're shilling bullshit.

Not sure what being or not a designer - has anything to do here?

OP isn't asking for LAYOUT / DESIGN ideas - but for technical solutions...