changing the shape of the textmeshpro display?

here’s the ui i’m working with:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003311289419976807/1006103356554608710/unknown.png

i basically want for the text to not display in the upper left corner where that smaller box is, but i still want the text to be displayed under it. can it be done?

I have never used it myself but you can set the text overflow to “Linked”. You can then pass in a second tmpro object which will be used to overflow into. ( documentation )

That way you can make two textfields and treat them as one to create your cutout shape.