Automatic Typesetting

[Ben_Sciascia@adobeforums.com]

Hi There,

I know I'm missing something simple here (I hope I am anyway), but this issue has been plaguing any work we do in InDesign for a year - so I need to find a fix!

How do you turn off the typesetting or line breaks InDesign seems to do automatically?

I find that when I bring a word down to the next line, a different word will also be changed 3 lines up in the same paragraph.

Or a small word like 'an' will just not go up to the next line despite there being enough room for two an's.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Ben

[Ben_Sciascia@adobeforums.com]

I should clarify in the example above that I am trying to manually take the word 'an' up to the next line - which it does but InDesign deletes the space. If I add a space, InDesign automatically brings the word down?

[Bob Levine]

What you're looking at is the paragraph composer and it's what makes
InDesign-set type far superior to any other pagelayout application.

If you really want to dumb it down, switch to the single line composer.

But you'd be doing yourself a big favor by learning how to use properly
instead of fighting it.

Bob

[Dominic_Hurley@adobeforums.com]

I'm with Bob - the paragraph composer is a great feature. And, if you have to, you can use the no break attribute to keep text together when using it.

[Ben Sciascia]

Hey Bob,

Thanks for your reply but I'm not trying to fight it - I'm asking for help.

I literally cannot finish this job until I get the word 'an' up to the next line - if you can believe that!

Would you have any suggestions on how to accomplish this with paragraph composer on?

Cheers

Ben

[Bob Levine]

As Dominic suggests, use the no break attribute.

Bob

[Ben Sciascia]

Got it thanks - didn't see Dominic's post at first as the forum wasn't showing all the messages...

Cheers

[mhari@ihug.com.au]

Ben_Scias...@adobeforums.com wrote:

> I should clarify in the example above that I am trying to manually take the word 'an' up to the next line - which it does but InDesign deletes the space. If I add a space, InDesign automatically brings the word down?

If there is enough room for 'an' on the line above, putting a soft
return (shift + return) behind the 'an' may also make it jump up to the
line above.

Mhari

[peterpica]

Or do a shift-return for a forced line break.

[Bob Levine]

> Or do a shift-return for a forced line break.

Big thumbs down on that. It's fine with a single line composer but I'd
stay away from it with the paragraph composer.

Bob