You can find this panel at the top of the working screen. There is one more place where you can find same Leading option which is Character Formatting panel. Just go to this list and enable it by clicking on it. If there is no such panel you can find it in the scroll down list of Window menu. All the options of Leading is same here as we discussed above. The same option of Leading you can also find in the Properties panel which you can find in the panels section, right side of working screen. So Auto spacing will be at 120% of font size of text. If we change font size as 10 then you can see leading will change as 12 which is 120% of 10. I will choose Auto option for Leading this time and when you click on it, it will show you a specific point value. Now let us select text line of same font size and now here font size is 12 point in Character panel. It is because we have selected two text of different sizes. You can see there is no font size showing in the font size box of this panel. You can enter your desired value manually also. I will select this heading and line of this paragraph and when I can click on down arrow key of Leading box then I can choose any point size for spacing between lines.įor example if I choose 18 point then the spacing will be 18 point for these two lines. Here in this box of Leading option we have Auto option that means InDesign set the leadings between lines itself on the basis of font size. Now in this Character panel there is Leading option. So go to Type & Tables menu option of it and here is Character option or you can press Ctrl + T as its shortcut key. If you are unable to find this panel you can find it in the scroll down list of the Windows menu. Not a big deal, but takes a little attention.I will open this Character panel for this purpose. For example, if you later decide to delete one, the only good way to do it is to click elsewhere in the paragraph and then use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the cursor into position. Of course, zero-width characters (especially when they’re kerned like this) are difficult to select with the Type tool. That means the word still spell-checks correctly! These special characters are both “zero-width” and don’t break the word into two. The solution: Add another non-joiner character with more negative kerning:īy the way, you don’t have to use the non-joiner you could use the End Nested Style Here character. Unfortunately, InDesign has a maximum kerning limitation of –1000, which makes it tricky to bring the word even closer in to the drop cap. By the way, here’s how I inserted the non-joiner character from the Type menu: It’s really before the “c” but it appears to be after it because of the –1000 kerning. See that little light blue symbol that looks like it’s after the “c”? That’s the invisible character (Type > Show Hidden Characters) indicating there’s a non-joiner there. However, this is not what we’re trying to achieve… we just want the first line to be kerned in! Fortunately, one of our eagle-eyed readers named Janet pointed out a trick shared by Petteri Paananen on the Adobe forums: If you place a non-joiner character between the drop cap and the second letter, you can then kern the space between that non-joiner and the following letter (the “c” in the example above). This kerning trick is pretty cool, and in fact, you can push it to the extreme, making the drop cap appear entirely behind the text itself: You can see the kerning value is -250 in the Control panel.) (In the image above I set the color of the drop cap character to blue to make it easier to see. You may already know the kerning trick: If you place the type cursor between the first two letters of the word, you can set the kerning to a negative number, which brings the letters closer together… but it also changes the spacing for all the subsequent lines: If only we could make that first line snug in closer to the drop cap! For instance, in the image above, the first word (“Academic”) appears to be two words because there is too much space between the drop cap and the rest of the word. But some people just want to bring the first line in a bit closer to the drop cap. There are ways to cause a non-rectangular runaround ( I wrote about it here, and Anne-Marie shows the technique in a short video here). That means the text to the right of the drop cap does not runaround or wrap to the contours of the character: When you assign drop cap formatting to a paragraph (so that one or more letters at the beginning of the paragraph drop down more than one line), InDesign creates the drop cap in a rectangular area.
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