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II. Paragraph Formats
by Nigel French
InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Who Should Read This Book?
I. Character Formats
1. Getting Started
An InDesign Type Map: Where to Find Stuff
Recommended Type Preferences
The Tools Palette
The Control Palette
Viewing Your Page
Moving Between Pages
Creating a Typography Workspace
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2. Going with the Flow
A Blank Sheet: Typing on Your Page
Text Flow
Threading Text Frames
Using Placeholder Text
Pasting Text
Importing Word Text
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3. Character Reference
Less is More, Maybe
Type Anatomy
Type Classification
Venetian Oldstyle
Garalde Oldstyle
Script
Transitional
Didone (Modern)
Slab Serif
Sans Serif
Decorative & Display
Blackletter
Monospaced
Ornamentals
Symbol
Character Formatting Options
Font and Font Style
Using Italic Type
Using Bold Type
Small Caps
All Caps
Superscript and Subscript
Underlining
Strikethrough
Baseline Shift
Horizontal and Vertical Scale
Readability
Serif vs. Sans
Other Readability Factors
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4. Getting the Lead Out
How Much Is Enough?
(Not) Using Auto Leading
Keep It Consistent, Except. . .
Leading Menu Options and Keyboard Shortcuts
See Also
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5. Kern, Baby, Kern
When to Kern
Metrics Kerning
Optical Kerning
Manual Kerning
How Much to Kern
Tracking
When to Track
Controlling Widows and Orphans
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6. Sweating the Small Stuff: Special Characters, White Space, and Glyphs
Typographer’s Quotes
Apostrophes
Dashes
Ellipses
End Marks
White Space Characters
Em Space: Cmd+Shift+M (Ctrl+Shift+M)
En Space: Cmd+Shift+N (Ctrl+Shift+N)
Flush Space
Hair Space: Cmd+Option+Shift+I (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I)
Nonbreaking Space: Cmd+Option+X (Ctrl+Alt+X)
Thin Space: Cmd+Option+Shift+M (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M)
Figure Space
Punctuation Space
Line Break (aka Soft Return, Forced Line Break) Shift-Return
The Glyphs Palette
Creating and Using a Glyph Set
Creating a Glyph Set
Making a Fraction
Multiplication Sign
The Euro Symbol
Footnotes
Footnote Options
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7. OpenType: The New Frontier in Font Technology
Ligatures
Discretionary Ligatures
Ordinals/Raised and Lowered Characters
Swash Characters
Titling Alternates
Small Caps
Fractions
Oldstyle Figures
Contextual Alternates
Opticals
Glyph Positioning
Stylistic Sets
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II. Paragraph Formats
8. Aligning Your Type
Centering Type
Guidelines for Centering Type
Clean Shaven or Rugged: Justified vs. Ragged Type
How InDesign Justifies Type
Word Spacing
Letter Spacing
Glyph Scaling
The Adobe Paragraph Composer
Adobe Single-Line Composer
Balancing Ragged Lines
Right-Aligned Type
Optical Margin Alignment
Indent to Here
Vertical Alignment
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9. Paragraph Indents and Spacing
First-Line Indents
How Big Should They Be?
How (and How Not) to Add First-Line Indents
Alternatives to the First-Line Indent
Hanging Indents
Space Before and Space After
Proximity
Paragraph Indents
Text Insets
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10. First Impressions: Creating Great Opening Paragraphs
Creating a Simple Drop Cap
Drop Cap Aesthetics
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Kerning Drop Caps
Using Optical Margin Alignment
Creating a Contoured Drop Cap
Adding Small Caps
Nesting Small Caps
Tricks with Drop Caps
Coming Unstuck with Drop Caps
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11. Don’t Fear the Hyphen
Hyphenation Options
Words with at Least _ Letters
After First and Before Last
Hyphen Limit
Hyphenation Zone
The Hyphenation Slider
Hyphenate Capitalized Words
Hyphenate Last Word
Discretionary Hyphens and Nonbreaking Hyphens
Multilingual Documents
Hyphenation and User Dictionaries
Sharing User Dictionaries
Hyphenation Dos and Don’ts
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12. Mastering Tabs and Tables
Setting Tabs
Creating Decimal Tabs
Using Tab Leaders
Reply Forms
Numbered Lists
Right Indent Tab
Working with Tables
Creating a Table
From Scratch
Converting Text to a Table
Importing a Table
Selecting a Table
Breaking Tables Across Frames
Adding Borders, Strokes, and Fills to a Table
Working with Rows and Columns
Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
Resizing Rows and Columns
Changing Row Height
Distributing Rows or Columns Evenly
Working with Table Cells
Merging and Splitting Cells
Adding Diagonal Lines to a Cell
Working with Table Cells
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III. Styles
13. Stylin’ with Paragraph and Character Styles
Creating Styles
Creating a Style Based on Existing Text
Loading Styles from Another InDesign Document
Creating the Style “Blind”
Basing Styles on Other Styles
Applying Styles
Clearing Overrides
Quick Apply
Editing Styles
Redefining Styles
Creating Default Styles
A Typical Style Sheet
Head1
Head2
Head3
Body
Body No Indent
Body First
Byline
Caption
Intro
Picture Credit
Pull Quote
Sidebar
Sidebar Head
Importing Styles from a Microsoft Word Document
Using the Eyedropper to Create Pseudo Styles
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14. Mo’ Style
Paragraph Rules
Sequential Styles
Nested Styles
Run-in Heads
Contents Page
Review Section
Object Styles
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IV. Page Layout
15. Setting Up Your Document
Choosing a Page Size
Determining Margins
Relative Size of Margins
Determining Column Width
Determining Gutter Width
Column Height
Changing Columns
Break Characters
Page Numbers
Section Markers
Layers
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16. Everything in Its Right Place: Using Grids
Things to Consider
Your Grid Tool Kit
Grid Preferences
Calculating the Height of the Type Area
Align to Grid
First Baseline Options
Snap to Guides
Text Frames with Different Grids
Create Guides
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17. Text Wraps: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Applying Text Wraps
Wrapping Type Around Irregularly Shaped Graphics
Text Wrap Preferences
Inverted Text Wraps
Ignoring Text Wrap
Anchored Objects
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18. Type Effects
Gradient Type
Stroked Type
Multiple Strokes
Neon Type
Offset Strokes
Drop Shadows
Custom Type with Create Outlines
Compound Paths
Type Masks
Path Type
Type on a Circle
Vertical (Stacked) Alignment
Transparency Effects
Ghosted Panels
Shaping Text Frames
Sheared Type
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