In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Mike Rankin demos why you might want to use a discretionary line break and how to insert one into your text. He also shows us how these line breaks can be used to overcome issues that might arise when using InDesign’s special space characters.
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This article was first published on December 18, 2018
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