Let's say I have a movie with rating 2.5 and I should write this rating with specific star character which is ✪ (272A, http://jrgraphix.net/r/Unicode/2700-27BF). Is there some way I could use character style (or paragraph style) to hide half of the character to have a half star. It's not possible to create object of this character and make the half star, it needs to be a character.
I've tried hiding half of the character with borders, underlines and rules without any luck. Background of the page is white and hiding a character with white color doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
Answer
Which half has to be hidden?
Here the explanation for all of them with character styles on a 36pt character:
Bottom and top half:
From the Character Window Options > Apply Strikethrough to the character and create a Character Style.
The measurements depend on the character size. The color cyan is just to show the bottom half to be hidden, change this color for the paper color.
For the top half change the offset distance.
Right and left half:
From the Character Window Options > Apply Strikethrough to the character and create a Character Style.
The measurements depend on the character size. The color cyan is just to show the left half to be hidden, change this color for the paper color.
On this case the strike cover the character but has a little trick on the Stroke Type:
The Strikethrough is with a dashed line, but you must create a custom dashed line from the window Stroke > Stroke Styles > New
With those options:
Change the strikethrough color to the paper color:
To hide the other half, just create a new stroke style covering the other half:
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