- #HOW TO JUSTIFY A PARAGRAPH IN WORD 2013 PDF#
- #HOW TO JUSTIFY A PARAGRAPH IN WORD 2013 UPDATE#
- #HOW TO JUSTIFY A PARAGRAPH IN WORD 2013 SERIES#
#HOW TO JUSTIFY A PARAGRAPH IN WORD 2013 PDF#
So if you’re setting justified text that will be read on screen from a PDF for example, you’re best off fixing the scaling to 100%. It does affect rendering, particularly on screen. The reason why I set the defaults as I do is because this generally works well with the type I’m justifying.
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As Erik says, with some faces the desired Word Spacing should be set much tighter, with more leniency on either side of the ideal.
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So glad that someone disagrees otherwise I wouldn’t learn anything new.
#HOW TO JUSTIFY A PARAGRAPH IN WORD 2013 SERIES#
Using Type is a regular series on this blog, published Thursdays. Now what am I leaving out? Please let me know in the comments. Also, depending on the faces you’re working with, the Story panel’s Optical Margin Alignment setting may offer you a bit of needed latitude, and is worth a try. My only advice with the above Hyphenation dialog, also accessible from the Paragraph panel, is to look at it on your own and make some conscious decisions, run some tests, etc. If you can’t spot a commonly misspelled word or catch a grammatical error, your ability to operate as a typographer (in that language) will be pretty limited. Below I adjust the settings on a piece of Spanish text set in Max Phillips’s FF Spinoza.īy the way, I recommend limiting the scope of your typesetting work to languages you currently speak and read. If working with text that constantly flips back and forth between languages, this means that the best way of handling it, at present, is by setting up a character style with the language applied. The way you set copy to follow the rules of a different language is by selecting the text, either at the character level, or by selecting its text frame, and from the bottom of the Character panel, setting the language. But how does it know what language the copy is in? Either you specify it, or it defaults based on the language from its installation setting. Which begs the question, how does InDesign know where to acceptably break words? It uses a hyphenation dictionary. If it were effect-ive or effe-ctive, it wouldn’t read as well. The hyphenated word above, ef-fective, breaks after the first two letters. What I mean to say by that is there’s a logical flow to it. When words are hyphenated, they should lead the reader from the head of the word, to the waiting body at the beginning of the next line. Justification wouldn’t work without it, not without a tremendous copyfitting effort anyway. Note especially the word spacing on the fifth lines of each. The text breaks at exactly the same points in both samples, which is unusual, but offers a nice apples-to-apples comparison of the subtle differences. Below is a comparison of the default justification settings, left, to the new settings, right. The sample above is justified with the above settings applied. Provided no other documents are open upon closing this dialog, the values you’ve just set are your new justification defaults.
#HOW TO JUSTIFY A PARAGRAPH IN WORD 2013 UPDATE#
( Update In response to one of the comments, I’ll add: If you’re creating a PDF to be read primarily on screen, fix glyph scaling to 100%.) Note that I don’t mess with the Single Word Justification since this is something that’s rarely used, but when it is, you’ll want it to perform as expected.
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Once you’ve got a representative sample of your copy set, dial these settings (Glyph Scaling tolerances) back some to see what’s working. But by all means, use your eyes and try it out with the real thing. Many designers of text faces take this constraint into consideration and make their designs capable of withstanding modest scaling. The same goes for Letter Spacing and Glyph Scaling, though I’d keep it to a 1 or 2 percent variation.Īnd yes, in case you’re wondering I did in fact just say it’s okay to squoosh type, a little. Instead, vary Word Spacing by 2 or 3 percent on either side. Spaces between words will be both much too wide and far too tight as a result. Twenty percentage points of variation tighter and looser than the default word spacing is simply too elastic a standard. From the Paragraph panel, select the down arrow in the top right corner, and choose Justification.Ĭommon Term: When typographers refer to ‘H&J,’ they’re talking about hyphenation and justification settings.Īpplying the above defaults ensures terrible justification. First, before any documents are open in InDesign, let’s fix the default. Alright, you’ve read the intro on when to justify and what considerations to make when doing it, now let’s get to the how of it.