![]() ![]() ![]() This invisible character causes the rest of the lines in a paragraph to indent to this place. This is the keyboard shortcut for the Indent to Here character (you can also get this character from the Other submenu in the Insert Special Character submenu, in either the Type menu or the context menu). With the text cursor immediately after the tab character, press Command-\or Ctrl-\(backslash). Here’s another way to create a hanging indent: Type the text you want to “hang,” followed by a tab character. Display the Paragraph or Control panel, then enter a value in the First Line Left Indent, Left Indent, Right Indent, and/or the Last Line Right Indent fields (see Figure 4-34).To change an indent value, select a paragraph and then do one of the following things: Another use might be to set the position of the final line when using Justify All Lines (forced justification). The most common use for this is to apply a large Right Indent and then a negative Last Line Right Indent (so that the last line sticks out past the rest of the paragraph, as in many menu designs). The Last Line Right Indent lets you set the position for the last line of text in a paragraph. Book designers often use a one- or two-em indent, so in an 11-point type, the indent might be 11 or 22 points. Typically, the larger the x-height of the font, the larger first-line indent you should use. How large your First Line indent should be depends on your design and on the typeface you’re working with. You can enter values from zero (0) to 720 picas in these fields, but you can’t enter negative numbers to make the edges of the paragraph “hang” outside the edges of the column or text frame. Paragraphs can be indented using the Left Indent and Right Indent fields in the Paragraph or Control panel (see Figure 4-32). The former aligns the text to the spine and leaves the outside of the text ragged the latter does the opposite. In the old days of typesetting, these alignments were known as “quad right” and “quad center.”įinally, the Align Towards Spine and Align Away from Spine options. Right justified and center justified treat the last line as right aligned and center aligned, respectively. In some cases, when the Paragraph Composer is turned on (see “Multi-line Composition,” later in this chapter), turning on force justify actually reflows the paragraph significantly. When you force justify the text, the last line is spread out all the way to the right margin, even if it’s only a single word. These each tell InDesign to treat the last line of the paragraph differently. In addition to the standard “justified” alignment, which treats the last line of the paragraph as if it were left aligned, InDesign offers the force justified, right justified, and center justified alignments. InDesign supports the usual set of paragraph alignments-left aligned (also known as “rag right”), right aligned (also known as “rag left”), centered, and justified, but also adds a couple of variations on the justified alignment you might not be familiar with. AlignmentĬlick the alignment buttons at the top of the Paragraph panel or in the Control panel to set the alignment of the selected paragraphs (see Figure 4-31). These features are duplicated in the Control panel-if the Control panel is displaying character formatting, then click the panel’s Paragraph Formatting Controls button or press Command-Option-7/Ctrl-Alt-7 to switch to paragraph formatting. To display the Paragraph panel, press Command-Option-T/Ctrl-Alt-T. ![]() You can find all of InDesign’s paragraph formatting features in the Paragraph panel. (Note that you can force a line break without creating a new paragraph-called a “soft return”-by typing Shift-Return/Shift-Enter.) If what you’re trying to do, however, is apply character formatting (such as font or point size) to all of the characters in the paragraph, you should quadruple-click (or triple-click, if you’ve turned off the Triple Click to Select a Line option in the Type panel of the Preferences dialog box) the paragraph with the Type tool-that way, you’ll select all of the characters, including the carriage return character. The selection doesn’t have to include all of the text, it only has to touch each paragraph. To select more than one paragraph, drag the cursor through the paragraphs you want to format. You don’t have to select all of the text in a paragraph to apply paragraph formatting-all you need to do is click the Type tool in the paragraph. Paragraph alignment, indents, tabs, spacing, and hyphenation settings are all examples of paragraph formatting. When you apply paragraph formatting, the formatting applies to all of the characters in the paragraph. What makes a paragraph a paragraph? InDesign’s definition is simple-a paragraph is any string of characters that ends with a carriage return.
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