Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 255)

247 USING INDESIGN CS4
Typography
4 If you choose Justify and you want to prevent the leading value from becoming disproportionately larger than the
paragraph spacing value, specify a Paragraph Spacing Limit value. The space between paragraphs is expanded up
to the value you specify; if the text still doesn’t fill the frame, the space between lines is adjusted until the frame is
filled. The paragraph spacing limit value is applied in addition to the Space Before or Space After values entered on
the Paragraph panel.
Paragraph spacing limit set to zero (left) and 1 pica (right)
Note: Be careful about vertically justifying multi-column text frames. If the last column contains only a few lines, too
much white space may appear between the lines.
5 Click OK.
An easy way to adjust the Paragraph Spacing Limit value is to select Preview, and then click the up or down arrow
next to the Paragraph Spacing Limit value until paragraph spacing appears to be balanced with leading.
Tabs and indents
Tabs dialog box overview
Tabs position text at specific horizontal locations in a frame. The default tab settings depend on the Horizontal ruler
units setting in the Units & Increments preferences dialog box.
Tabs apply to an entire paragraph. The first tab you set deletes all default tab stops to its left. Subsequent tabs delete all
default tabs between the tabs you set. You can set left, center, right, and decimal or special-character tabs.
You set tabs using the Tabs dialog box.
Tabs dialog box
A. Tab alignment buttons B. Tab position C. Tab Leader box D. Align On box E. Tab ruler F. Snap above frame
Open the Tabs dialog box
1 Using the Type tool, click in the text frame.
2 Choose Type > Tabs.
If the top of the frame is visible, the Tabs dialog box snaps to the current text frame and matches its width to the current
column.
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greater pleasures first
be known That are to
censure them.
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not the first Who, with
best meaning, have
incurr’d the worst. EDMUND : Some
officers take th m away:
good guard,Until their
greater pleasures first
be known That are to
censure them.
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not the first Who, with
best meaning, have
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Updated 18 June 2009