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• • May 11, 2018 at 3:18 am #103660
    Tyler Dickinson

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    In some places in my document, the paragraph flow doesn’t seem to work logically. The line breaks in such a way that there’s clearly room for the next word on the same line, but no matter what I try, I can’t get the word to appear on the same line of text. For example, the paragraph looks like:

    What an appalling philosophy that |
    sounds! To attempt to classify |
    you, Mrs. Cheveley, would be an |
    impertinence. But may I ask, at |
    heart, are you an optimist or a |
    pessimist? Those seem to be the only |
    two fashionable religions left to us |
    nowadays. |

    NB: The style in the forum removes the extra spaces at the end of the line (between the word and the vertical bar). Imagine all the vertical bars aligning with the bar after the word “only”.

    The vertical bar indicates where the right bound of the text frame is. I’m using a monospace font. The text frame has no insets. “you” at the start of line 3 would clearly fit at the end of line 2. Reducing the tracking doesn’t help. If I apply “no break”, then “classify” jumps down to line 3. The same problem occurs in multiple places in my document.

    Thank you for your help!

  • May 11, 2018 at 4:12 am #103663
    Theunis De Jong

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    It is not a problem, it’s a feature.

    InDesign breaks the lines so that all line ends are as even as possible. For example, if the “you” at the 3rd line is moved to the end of the 2nd line, then the 3rd line would be much shorter than the others – the word “impertinence” at the next line is too long to fit at that line. You obviously have disabled hyphenation, so all InDesign can do is shuffle words around until no single line sticks in or out.

    That is exactly what the “Full Paragraph Composer” is supposed to do. This is unhyphenated, left-aligned text, but it works the same with hyphenated and justified text (in that case, the target is the same: “equalizing line length” is then interpreted as “equalizing space widths”).

    If you don’t want this and prefer highly uneven line lengths, select the Single Line Composer in the Justification settings of this text. That will fill lines one line at a time, without checking for more pleasing alternatives.

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