Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 276)

270 USING INDESIGN
Typography
Last updated 11/16/2011
Set tabs
You can set left, center, right, and decimal or special-character tabs. When you use the special-character tab, you can
set a tab to align to any character you choose, such as a colon or a dollar sign.
Bob Bringhurst provides an article about various tab and indent effects at Tabs and Indents Gallery .
1 Using the Type tool , click an insertion point in the paragraph.
2 Press the Tab key. Add tabs in the paragraphs where you want to add horizontal space. (You can also add tabs after
you create your tab settings.)
Using tabs to align text
3 Choose Type > Tabs to display the Tabs dialog box.
4 To specify which paragraphs will be affected, select a paragraph or a group of paragraphs.
5 For the first tab, click a tab-alignment button (left, right, center, or decimal) in the Tabs dialog box to specify how
text will align to the tab’s position.
6 Do one of the following:
• Click a location on the tab ruler to position a new tab.
Adding a new tab setting
• Type a position in the X box and press Enter or Return. If the X value is selected, press the up or down arrow key
to increase or decrease the tab value by 1 point, respectively.
7 For subsequent tabs with different alignments, repeat steps 3 and 4.
The first tab setting is right-aligned; the second tab setting is left-aligned.
Act 1 Scene 1: King Lear’s palace.
Scene 2: The Earl of Gloucester’s castle.
Scene 3: The Duke of Albany’s palace.
Scene 4: A hall in the same.
Scene 5: Court before the same.
Act 2 Scene 1: Gloucester’s castle
Scene 2: Before Gloucester’s castle.
Scene 3: A wood.