2018

TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY
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S
etting tabs
Y
ou can choose from six kinds of tab stops:
L
eft aligns text flush left on the tab stop.•
Center aligns text centrally on that tab stop.•
Right aligns text flush right on the tab stop.•
Decimal aligns text on a decimal point (period).•
Comma aligns text on a first comma.•
Align On aligns text on any character you specify. When you select this tab, the•
Align On field displays. Select the existing entry, and enter the character to align
on.
If you do not set custom tabs, the application sets default left-aligned tabs every
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half-inch.
To apply tabs to selected paragraphs, :Use the controls in the Tabs tab of the
Measurements palette. Using the Measurements palette conserves screen space,
and you continuously see the effects updated as you change tab settings. You can
drag tab icons to the ruler or drag tab icons directly into text. When you are
dragging tabs to the ruler or to text, a vertical line displays on screen to help you
decide where to position the tab.
Controlling widow and orphan lines
Widows and orphans are two kinds of typographically undesirable lines.
Traditionally, a widowis defined as the last line of a paragraph that falls at the top
of a column. An orphan is the first line of a paragraph that falls at the bottom of a
column.
Using the Keep Lines Together feature, you can choose not to break paragraphs, so
that if all the lines in a paragraph do not fit in a column or on a page, the whole
paragraph will flow to the top of the next column or page. Alternatively, you can
specify the number of lines that must be left at the bottom of a column or box, and
at the top of the following column or box, when a paragraph is broken. Using the
Keep with Next ¶ feature, you can keep a paragraph together with the paragraph
that follows it. This lets you keep a subhead together with the paragraph that
follows it, or keep other lines of text that logically go together from being separated.
It is common to specify Keep with Next ¶ for headline and subhead style sheets
and specify Keep Lines Together (usually with Start and End parameters) for body
text style sheets.
To turn the Keep Lines Together and Keep with Next ¶ features on or off for
selected paragraphs, use the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette.
Working with text shading
Text shading can be applied to a paragraph as a whole or to just a selection of text
within a paragraph.