![]() Enter tabs: To enter a tab in text, press the Tab key.The only way to see what you’re dealing with (and fix it) is to view hidden characters. It is very common to receive word-processing files in which the writer or editor has entered multiple tabs to align the text onscreen-or worse, entered spaces rather than tabs. When working with tabs, it helps to view the tab characters by choosing Type > Show Hidden Characters. Regardless of the position of the Tabs panel, you can enter values to set tabs with precision. When a text frame has an insertion point and enough space at the top, the Tabs panel snaps to the top of the frame so that the measurements in the panel’s ruler exactly match the text. Choose Type > Tabs to open the Tabs panel.Using the Type tool ( ), click in the “If You Go” box, and choose Edit > Select All to select all of the text.To view the tab markers in the text, choose Type > Show Hidden Characters and make sure that Normal Mode ( ) is selected in the Tools panel.Scroll and zoom as necessary to view the “If You Go” box.The tab markers have already been entered in the text, so you will be setting the final location of the text. Here you’ll format the tabbed information in the “If You Go” box on the left-facing page. Aligning text to tabs and adding tab leaders In the Tabs panel, you can organize text and create tab leaders, indents, and hanging indents. You can use tabs to position text in specific horizontal locations in a column or frame. To restore the story to the Adobe Paragraph Composer, choose Edit > Undo.If necessary, increase the view scale to see the difference.įigure 7-2 The Adobe Paragraph Composer (left) and the Adobe Single-line Composer (right). In the Paragraph panel, choose Adobe Single-line Composer from the panel menu.Using the Type tool ( ), click to place an insertion point anywhere in the main story.To see the difference between the two, you’ll recompose the body text using the Single-line Composer. The text in this lesson was composed using the default, the Adobe Paragraph Composer. When you use the Single-line Composer, which is the standard for other layout and word-processing software, InDesign recomposes only the lines following the edited text. As you change type in a given line, previous and subsequent lines in the same paragraph may break differently, making the overall paragraph appear more evenly spaced. When you use the Paragraph Composer, InDesign composes a line while considering the impact on the other lines in the paragraph, to set the best overall arrangement of the paragraph. InDesign provides two options for composing text: the Adobe Paragraph Composer, which looks at all of the lines in the paragraph, and the Adobe Single-line Composer, which looks separately at each individual line. ![]() InDesign’s composition methods consider the word spacing, letter spacing, glyph scaling, and hyphenation options you’ve selected and then evaluate and choose the best line breaks. The density of a paragraph (sometimes called its color) is determined by the composition method used. ![]() Applying the Adobe Paragraph and Single-line Composers ![]()
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