Notes on handing Paragraph Styles

If you know that you have to repeat the same style of text, you can highlight the text change to what you need OR go to a paragraph style, and create it to be replicated for all of them. You need to pre prepare this with sketches; you have to consider what’s most common needed.

Click at the top of the box of paragraph styles to add a new style, that will then will bring up a box (always start with the style your going to use more often mainly the body). Choosing optical is the best for the text.

Options for paragraph styles:

• Tracking at a 0 or 10
• Ligatures – they created an f and I character which is a combination of both which is easier to read
• Indents and spacing there is a space after values instead of tapping enter to go down in between a paragraph.  Called ‘space after’
• Align to grid, naturally on a page is something called a baseline grid, its the bottom of the lowercase letters
• Bullet indents are tabs
• Widow equals one word on its own. So in ‘keep options’  you can specify other lines od text to carry across or join
• Hyphenations depends on the audience
• Justification adds space to even out a paragraph, but no less that about 70 percent because the words will bleed into each other. Glyph scaling is not recommended, that changes a font.
• Drop caps creates the large letter at the beginning. And adjust the amount of liens you want it to fit over. Only over odd number of lines!
• Grep style allows you to create custom actions. If you cant find the copyright symbol, you can add a shortcut for a character.

Once you have a paragraph style, select the style of paragraph that has a style, then click onto the one without a style it will transfer the style to the other paragraph. For interviews select a new paragraph style, set the general style to ‘body’ or what its called.

Changing a word to italic for emphasis will cause printing problems if you do it within a paragraph style as it will overright it. Paragraph style will apply to the whole paragraph; character style will only alter one word. E.g. to change a word to italic.