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Justification Settings

Justification controls the spacing of letters and words across the text column by setting a range of acceptable spacing which the composition engine can use. You can adjust these settings in the Justification dialog box, also found on the Paragraph palette's flyout menu (see Figure 48-2). It is similar to the right half of QuarkXPress's Edit Hyphenation and Justification dialog box, with one more and one less feature.

Word, Letter, and Glyph Spacing

QuarkXPress lets you set Minimum, Optimum, and Maximum values for Space (word spacing) and Character (character spacing), all set as a percentage of a normal space character. InDesign has equivalent controls, called Minimum, Desired, and Maximum Word Spacing and Letter Spacing, each also set as a percentage.

In addition, InDesign gives you the ability to alter Glyph Scaling, which lets you subtly change the width (horizontal scaling) of the characters. If you set a modest Glyph Scaling valuelike Minimum 98-percent and Maximum 102-percentthe difference in letterform shapes probably won't be distinguishable. It's also useful to use the Preview option to test out spacing alternatives before applying them or including them in a paragraph style.

InDesign lacks XPress's Flush Zone setting, the value which controls whether the last line of a paragraph gets forced justified. The Single Word Justification choice matches XPress's Single Word Justify command. This controls what happens in a text frame with a narrow width (like a newspaper column) when a word falls on a line by itself. Inexplicably, InDesign also puts the control for Auto Leading default in this dialog box as well.

Flush Space Character

While we discuss special characters in Chapter 51, it makes sense to mention one other new feature which InDesign adds to control how lines are justified: the

flush space character.

The flush space character can add a variable amount of space to the last line of a paragraph when the alignment is set to Justify All Lines. In a paragraph where the line is set to be flush left, center or right, the character only takes up the width of a word space. In a fully-justified paragraph, it adjusts its width to take up all the extra space on the line where it appears. It works best at the end of a story between the last word and the end-of-story character which is often used to end a magazine article (see Figure 48-3). You can insert the flush space from the Insert White Space menu (under the Type menu or in the context menu).