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• • September 13, 2015 at 10:41 am #78063
    Nicole Muller

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    What is the best way to make a line break? Return, shift return, something else? Why?

    Thanks,
    Nicole

  • September 13, 2015 at 9:44 pm #78067
    Tom Pardy

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    It depends on what you want to achieve.

    If you use Shift-Return, you are still in the same paragraph with all the same paragraph style features; and the space above the new line will be determined by the font leading. Additionally, if the alignment of the paragraph style is set to justified (of which there are four varieties) then the line you have just left will be expanded to stretch from margin to margin — not a good look. Shift-Return really only works with align-left, align-right, align-centre and align-towards-spine.

    If you use Shift on its own then you will be in a new paragraph and, depending on the “Next Style” settings in the paragraph style of the paragraph you have just left, you may be in a completely different paragraph style; and the space above the new line (new paragraph) will be determined by the “Indent and Spacing” settings of the new style. If the space above and below is set to zero and the alignment is left, right, centre or towards-spine, then the new line (new paragraph) will look much the same as a Shift-Return.

  • September 14, 2015 at 7:49 am #78085
    Tim Hughes

    Member

    Return, 99.5% of the time.
    Shift-return (or soft-return) if you really must force a break, as Furry says you will not be starting a new paragraph.
    To move a word to join an orphan use no-break.

  • September 15, 2015 at 9:53 am #78099
    Nicole Muller

    Member

    Thanks Furry and Tim. Tim, where do I find the no-break feature you referred to?

    • September 15, 2015 at 10:15 am #78101
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      click on the flyout menu on the “character” palette (it will be at the bottom).

      I personally make a character style sheet for my no breaks. The no break will be on “general characters.” Just click the “no break” box.

  • September 15, 2015 at 11:27 am #78105
    Nicole Muller

    Member

    Thanks, Dwayne that did the trick(s)!

    • September 15, 2015 at 3:03 pm #78117
      Dwayne Harris

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      Glad it worked. The “no break” was my first thought, but others beat me to the punch.

      I use the no-break all the time. Since a lot of the books I work on go to eBooks, the folks in the eBooks department will really throw a fit if they see a soft return. I had one job (almost 600 page book), and used about a half-dozen soft returns in a notes section (URLs which I was sick of messing around with so far as no breaks, and discretion break here commands). That notes section was around 100 pages. They were ready to carry their pitchforks and torches and tar and feather me.

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