3 Replies Latest reply: Jul 24, 2009 8:21 AM by trianita RSS

    line breaks

    trianita Community Member

      using cs4 on the mac

       

      I have text in object text frames and every now and then I find that the text mysteriously breaks to a new line even when there is ample room for  the next word.

       

      I enclose an image - note how the "be" should be after "will" and not on a new line

       

      any ideas, this is really annoying me

        • 1. Re: line breaks
          phyllisj9 Community Member

          Any chance you have "Balance Ragged Lines" turned on in your paragraph options?  That'll always change the text flow, though it didn't look like your sample was particularly balanced.....

          • 2. Re: line breaks
            [Jongware] Community Member

            It's highly likely that putting "will be" on one line will make either that line stick out, or any one (!) of the other lines in that same paragraph.

             

            In essence, what you see would be the optimal solution for "how to break lines and averaging their lengths at the same time" on this paragraph. It comes courtesy of the Adobe Paragraph Composer (which is patented, but sounds a lot like Donald Knuth's algorithms for TeX [1982]). It is not visible for left-aligned text, but for fully-justified text it also calculates even spacing along multiple lines.

             

            The visible result of this is, if you insert text on a line, that line miraculously may get shorter!

             

            If you must have absolutely total control over your text placement, and you think you can do better than Adobe/Knuth's mathematically perfect algorithm, switch from using the Paragraph Composer to the Single-Line Composer, found in the Paragraph panel menu or in your Paragraph styles under "Justification". The Single-Line Composer simply fills a line until there is no more room for a next word (considering hyphenation and justification), then goes on with the next line.

            • 3. Re: line breaks
              trianita Community Member

              spot on