From the course: InDesign for Editors
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The Paragraph Composer - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign for Editors
The Paragraph Composer
- [Voiceover] A behind the scenes InDesign feature that can cause editors confusion is the Paragraph Composer. That is, until you understand its purpose. I'll press W to turn on my guides, and then zoom in and double-click to make an insertion point into the text. So the Paragraph Composer is especially useful when working with justified text. To achieve a smooth right edge to the text frame, InDesign has to vary the spaces between the words. In doing so, the Paragraph Composer is looking within the whole paragraph to determine how to distribute the word spacing as evenly as possible. In practice, what this means is that if you edit in the middle of a paragraph. You can see there by adding in that text, my word endings before the cursor as well as those after the cursor are changing. So this might be a problem if you're working in a publishing environment where, maybe a legal publishing environment, where the word endings have been signed off. And then you wanna make sure that they…
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