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• • June 13, 2017 at 8:48 am #95361
    Steve A. Loveland, Jr.

    Member

    why is the left align acting so funky for me?

    i can see in places, say, the word “and” could fit on the line about three times, yet it is bumped to the next line…

    then i remove a space at the end of a line three lines away & that and jumps up to where i can see where it would have fit all along just fine…

    the word “including” is doing the same here:

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  • June 13, 2017 at 8:48 am #95362
    Steve A. Loveland, Jr.

    Member

    please & thanks for help!

  • June 13, 2017 at 9:04 am #95363
    Charlotte Mrzygod

    Participant

    You may want to look at your settings regarding hyphenation, justification, keep options, and more … adjust them until you are happy, then create a paragraph style to capture it and apply it where you need it.

  • June 13, 2017 at 9:31 am #95365
    Steve A. Loveland, Jr.

    Member

    maybe i just need to fiddle more, but adjusting those seemed to have no effect…

    i even went in & did an html strip just in case some gobblygook was hiding in there… : [

  • June 13, 2017 at 9:38 am #95368
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    You’ve run up against InDesign’s paragraph composer. It is very different than composers such as MS Word because it looks at the whole paragraph rather than just line by line. It wants to make the whole paragraph look its best. :-)

    You can read more about it here:
    https://creativepro.com/the-importance-of-paragraph-composition.php
    and
    https://creativepro.com/the-great-paragraph-composer-paradox.php

  • June 13, 2017 at 10:37 am #95371
    Steve A. Loveland, Jr.

    Member

    oh, boy… cool, ‘thanks… down the rabbit hole…
    i actually suspected it (& its alternatives) might be involved
    ‘just bumping into it a few times while searching through
    whatever else might offer itself as a culprit… :1 & : /

    NOW i’m nervous…

    • June 13, 2017 at 2:52 pm #95373
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Steve–I’ve found the paragraph composer comes in very handy. And it’s usually pretty good at what it does. The alternative is to turn it off, but then one would have to use soft returns and stuff to get the line breaks they want–which is a no-no when a job goes to eBook.

      Admittedly–it can be frustrating to add a comma in line 20 and all of a sudden the entire paragraph reflows (starting from line 5).

      To get around that, I usually apply a no-break somewhere in the line above to get it back to where it was.

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