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    • October 18, 2010 at 4:08 am #57416
      hopeuk
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      Hey…silly question No. 2 coming up from an ex-Quark user!

      I have a para of plain text, lets for arguments sake say itys 10 lines long.

      I delete a word in line 7, which in Quark would normally cause the text AFTER to reflow back as you would expect…if you deleted more than one word it may save a line…it may not.

      I have noticed in ID5 that if I delete the same word on line 7…ID will reflow the text in the para after the deleted word just as Quark above, BUT it may also change the line endings in lines 1-6 before the deleted word. This is obviously some form of auto adjustment built into ID to improve page layout/appearance…but I really could do with this being 'switched off' and the text NOT reflowing in any lines above where the corrections has been made…after the deleted word is fine, but not before.

      Can this be turned off or dumbed down?

      Cheers

    • October 18, 2010 at 9:33 am #57421
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      Well, yes, but mind you ID doesn't do this to be irritating!

      This behavior is caused by the Paragraph Composer, which resides in (from memory) the Justification panel in the paragraph styles. Its default is Adobe's patented (though seriously TeX-like) Full Paragraph Composer, but you can toggle back to the dumb one-line-at-a-time typesetting with the Single-Line Composer.

      The Full Paragraph Composer is “better” because it will always make the entire paragraph look as good as mathematically possible; i.e., all other possible values for word spacing and hyphenation points on any of the lines will make the entire paragraph look worse.

    • October 19, 2010 at 4:36 am #57426
      hopeuk
      Member

      Many thanks Jong…thats what I needed.

      I appreciate its seems almost stupid to turn this off or limit ID to one line composing, but for the moment it is our preferred way.

      Once we have become more familiar with ID5 then we may well revert back to the full para setting.

      Cheers!

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