This is a small guide showing a workaround I often use when styling poetry. Often you want the text to have an indent, but if the text breaks you want the remaining lines to have a bigger indent.
An example of how poetry could be indented, and the base of this small guide.
As you know, InDesign gives you 4 different ways of defining indents: Left indent, First Line Indent, Right Indent and Last Line Indent.
The 4 ways of indenting text in InDesign.
Unfortunately it doesn't have a Indent of all lines except the first, but that is easy to "work around". Instead you want to define how much you want your second, tertiary ... line indented as the Left Indent, and give the First Line Indent a negative value defining how much you want your first line "pulled back out".
In my case I want the first line to be indented by 12pt and the rest by 24pt, so the values I have typed in are 24pt as left indent, and -12pt as first line indent.
Illustrating the result.
Comments
Torben Schmidt wrote:
Hej Thomas!
Jeg syntes det er en kanon ide med dette site. Jeg har selv søgt efter guides til Indesign og syntes generelt der mangler noget info omkring dette program, så det er rigtigt godt.
Jeg syntes dog det godt kan være lidt irriterende med de vandrette og lodrette hjælpelinier som du har placeret på sitet. Det er godt i Indesign, men forvirrer mig lidt på din side.
Ellers syntes jeg siden er informativ og godt konstrueret. Jeg ser også frem til flere screencast.
Så fortsæt det gode arbejde :-)
Mvh.
Torben
Thomas Silkjær wrote:
Hi Torben,
Thanks for your comment!
The lines can be turned on and off by hitting the "W"-key on the keyboard - I should probably make that clearer somehow.
Otherwise I am really excited about writing more guides and recording more screencasts!
Torben Schmidt wrote:
hmm, I press and press the W-key but I can't make it work in IE7. Can that be true?
Silkjaer wrote:
I must admit I haven't tested it in IE yet - it's on my todo list. Sorry!
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