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• • April 18, 2020 at 4:24 am #1238913
    Anonymous

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    I know this is quite normal for some fonts, but is there a quick way to sort the spacing before words in a text box so that they line up? I could use a manual indent but would like to know if there’s an automatic setting that prevents me having to do this to every single text box.

    Example here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2h4rkr8yeoanh8z/text%20issue.png?dl=0

  • April 18, 2020 at 4:58 am #1238936
    Peter Kahrel

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    The spaces that you see between the left edge of the text frame and the first characters of the two paragraph (the B and the F) are the left sidebearings of the characters: that space is part of the character the way it’s defined in the font. Therefore you can’t use left indent or whatever. The only way to get align the visible part of the letters at the frame’s edge is to insert an innocent and invisible character such as a discretionary hyphen before the first letter and apply kerning between the two. You can automate that, see

    https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/kern.html#kern_first_character

    P.

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