[EmData] InData CS4 - Controlling Line Location of Line Breaks

[Joe Mathia - Em Support]

Hi Stephen,

Clever indeed!  Thanks for sharing this.  Zero leading is a handy thing, eh?

With QuarkXPress 8, you still can't have zero leading, but .001 is close
enough...


Regards,

Joe Mathia
Em Software Support / support at emsoftware.com / www.emsoftware.com
(+1) 740 284 1010, fax (+1) 740 284 1210




On 6/17/09 9:38 PM, "Stephen H. Owades" <owades at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> One good way to deal with something like this name-and-phone number problem is
> to create two paragraph styles, one for the name and one for the phone number.
> The "name" style should be flush left, with a right indent on the "name" style
> that is as wide as the phone number, and a right-aligning tab (with a dot
> leader) at the indent point. Define the "phone number" style with zero
> leading, and flush-right alignment.
> 
> Set each name in the "name" style, followed by a tab to create the dot leader
> and a hard return. Then set the phone number in the "phone number" style,
> followed by a hard return. This will ensure that there's always some part of
> the name on the same line as the number, and the number will be properly
> placed.
> 
> Using this scheme, if the last line of the name comes very close to the start
> of the phone number there may not be any dots between them. If you want to
> guarantee some dots there, make the right indent (and the tab stop) in the
> "name" style enough wider than the phone number to leave room for as many dots
> as you want to guarantee. Then set a left indent in the "phone number" style
> to the column measure less the name-style's right indent value, and set a
> right-aligning tab (with dot leader) at the column measure in the phone number
> style. The text should be set as described above, except that the phone number
> paragraph should begin with a tab. (In other words, set <name><tab><return> in
> the "name" style, and <tab><phone number><return> in the "phone number style.
> 
>     Stephen H. Owades
>     owades at alum.mit.edu
>     617-661-7798
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