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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line

114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line - InDesign Tutorial

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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line

Setting poetry is as much an art as a science and yet there are some rules and techniques that can help you set poems quickly. One common method for typesetting a poem is to ensure that it's centered in the column not centering every line, but rather positioning the whole poem still flush left so that the longest line of the poem is centered in the column. For example, in this poem by Tennyson, we can see that the longest line of the poem is the last one just by a hair. I want to make sure that the whole poem is centered in the column so that this last line is centered. To do that I'm going to double-click on this paragraph, and that switches from the Selection tool to the Type tool, and that places the flashing cursor in the line. Then, I'm going to come up to my Control panel and make sure that I'm set to the paragraph formatting controls. That's this little character over here on the left. Next, I'll click on the Align Center button, and that centers that one paragraph. Now…

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