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Margins and indents
Any changes you make are made to the current paragraph of text. (i.e. the paragraph containing the text
cursor) or, if you have a selected region of text, to the paragraphs of the selected region.
You can apply changes to all text in a text story by selecting all the text within that story ("Ctrl + A"). To
change more than one text story, select the text objects while in the Selector Tool then change to the
Text Tool
and make the required changes.
Left margin
. Drag this to change the left margin of the text.
First line margin.
Drag this to change the left margin for the first line of the paragraph
(useful for lists, as shown below).
Right margin.
Drag this to change the right margin of the text.
Demonstrating the left margin and first line
margin
Demonstrating a right margin
Text along a curve
If you have fitted a single line of text to the curve using the Fit text to curve
option, then the curve line is the margin. If the text is longer than the line it will just flow off the end.
If you have clicked on the line or fitted a column of text to a curve or line then you have left and right
margin indicators (small red squares) that can be dragged along the line to adjust the margins used for
justification.
Tabs
By default, text stories are created with tabs set 0.5 cm apart. This means you can just press "Tab" and
your text will be moved along to the next tab stop. You only need to define new tab stop positions if you
want alternative tab spacing.
These default tabs are shown as faint Ls on the ruler:
Standard tabs, indicated by faint "L"s
Custom tabs
To create a custom tab position, just click on the ruler where you wish to place the new tab. It will
replace default tabs up to that point on the ruler.
For example:
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