Boxed text padding, having to adjust the right end with a lot of fonts

[pianoleo]

I don’t think I can put this more clearly than Daniel did, just a few days back.

@dspreadbury

…have you tried creating a dedicated paragraph style and setting the option in there to show a border around it, then adjusting the border padding so that e.g. top, left and right padding use a value like 2pt, while the bottom padding is set to a negative value like -2pt?

If you then save this paragraph style as a default for future projects, you can then assign a key command to create a text item using your chosen paragraph style right away.