Use hanging indents, rather than breaking and indenting each line using carriage. Read part 2 of book design basics simple but powerful book design. Hanging text means making the first line of text stick out to the left slightly, beyond the normal margin. You can get over 100 formatting templates and indepth tutorial videos by signing up to the master package. How to create hanging punctuation in adobe indesign cs6 using the story panel and selecting optical margin alignment. Some years back i was setting type on a sell sheet for a college bookstore and needed to align an indented list so that the first letter of each line was in a vertical row. Hanging punctuation advanced text techniques in indesign. Make sure to check out the homepage and download the diy formatting templates and guide go ahead, its free. Learn how to set tabs and indents in adobe indesign. To indent only the first line of a paragraph one pica, type a value such as 1p in the first line left indent box.
This moves punctuation characters slightly outside the text margin. You can also share styles and presets across all documents in a book file. Working with typography and tables in adobe indesign cs4. In a hanging indent, all the lines in a paragraph are indented except for the first line. You can specify the unit of measurement as you enter the text by entering in for inches or pt for points, using any form of measurement indesign supports. Paragraph formatting type in real world adobe indesign cs4. Hanging punctuation is applied by setting the optical margin adjustment. Is there a way to do this in illustrator without having to tab to indent or press the spacebar a few times. You can also create a hanging indent with the indent to here.
Set tabs and indents in adobe indesign adobe support. To turn on optical margins in adobe indesign, simply select any text box. Indent text in an indesign cs5 publication dummies. In a hanging indent, all the lines in a paragraph are indented except. To create a hanging indent of one pica, type a positive value such as 1p in the left indent box and type a negative value such as. Indesign provides optical margin alignmentalso known as hanging punctuationwhich hangs the edges of offending characters slightly. First, you can give a paragraph a positive left indent and a negative. Have you ever tried lining up an indented, bulleted list by hand. I was just wanting to know the best way to have characters hang. If youre selfpublishing, itll save you a lot of time and money. If you dont want to use the automatic bullet list button in indesign, another way to do it, is makink a list manually.
A hanging indent is one in which the first line of a paragraph sticks out to the left of the rest of the paragraphoften used in numbered or bulleted lists. A hanging indent is one in which the first line of a paragraph sticks. Im designing a business card and i want the t telephone and f fax to hang away from the numbers. Using adobe indesign cs4 ucsf center for integrative. To create a hanging indent where all lines of the paragraph are. Hanging indents in creative suite applications tiny tutorials. Paragraph formatting type in real world adobe indesign. Ive been wrestling with a simple problem and despite online instruction, cant get my bullets to line up correctly. How to create hanging punctuation in adobe indesign youtube.