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• • October 25, 2011 at 7:03 am #60901
    Anonymous

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    I will probably be embarrassed at how simply this problem can be solved, but here goes. I know I don't know the right words/terminology, but hopefully you can forgive my ignorance!

    Within a text box, words often drop down to the next line when there's plenty of space for them to fit – e.g. there's an 'of' that would easily fit on a line, with room to spare, but it drops down to the next line. I've looked everywhere I can think of to change this (text frame options, paragraph justification, etc.) and I can't seem to fix this. What am I doing wrong?

    TIA.

  • October 25, 2011 at 10:48 am #60902
    Theunis De Jong

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    InDesign's default paragraph settings take the line endings of entire paragraphs into account when calculating the optimal line breaks, and it does an extremely thorough job. That's why it sometimes leaves odd ends: because the alrernative is worse.

    You can toggle this behavior off in the Justification dialog, under Paragraph Composer, if it really bothers you.

    see also https://creativepro.com/the…..sition.php

  • October 25, 2011 at 11:07 am #60903
    Anonymous

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    Thanks for responding. I tried switching to single line composer, but that (as you said) is no better. I guess I will just have to live with the way ID breaks lines.

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