- [Voiceover] I'm going to use this short chapter…from War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, to show you…how we can fix some common composition problems.…So, let's just take a look through this document.…Now, I've highlighted the problems.…At the top of page three, we have a widowed line.…So, a widow is the last line of a paragraph…that ends up at the top of the next page.…Now, not all widow's are necessarily that bad.…This is not that bad because it's on a facing pages…spread and it's a long line, but still,…if we can fix it, that would be preferable.…
Moving to the next spread, another widow.…This one, worse, because it's so much shorter.…Also, down at the bottom here, we have a runt,…or a short word.…Whatever you deem is non-permissible and I'm gonna say,…anything less than nine characters, at the end of a…paragraph, is not permissible, so that's the…problem right there.…And on the next spread, we have another runt.…So, when addressing these problems, start with the…more macro approach and that is to fix the runts…
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6/30/2016To get the most from this course, make sure to watch InDesign Typography Part 1.
- Text flow and text threading
- Placeholders and text frames
- Type alignment
- Indents, insets, and spacing
- Bullet and numbered lists
- Text wrap
- Formatting with styles
- Hyphenation and line breaks
- Combining typefaces
- White space and grids
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome40s
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Exercise files1m 5s
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1. Text Flow
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Text flow and text threading5m 49s
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Auto-sizing text frames2m 22s
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Good type hygiene4m 45s
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2. Alignment
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Left-aligned type3m 39s
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Justified type4m 57s
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Centered type1m 13s
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Right-aligned type1m 14s
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Hanging punctuation2m 22s
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Vertical alignment options4m 19s
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3. Indents, Insets, and Spacing
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First-line indents3m 54s
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Other types of indents2m 37s
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Using text insets2m 51s
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Paragraph spacing2m 39s
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4. Typical Formatting Scenarios
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Tabbed text9m 3s
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Bullet and numbered lists7m 20s
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Working with tables4m 36s
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Working with text wraps10m 24s
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5. Global Formatting with Styles
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Parent and child styles6m 45s
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Sequential styles3m 22s
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Using a grep style5m 4s
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6. Controlling Text
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Hyphenation8m 18s
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Breaking lines2m 33s
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Keep Options3m 25s
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Preventing short lines4m 29s
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7. Design Considerations
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Combining typefaces2m 22s
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Establishing hierarchy3m 52s
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Using white space2m 25s
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Working with a grid3m 41s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye34s
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