Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Chapter 1 Getting Started 1
Type Anatomy and Classification 4
An InDesign Type Map: Where to Find the Type Stuff 10
Viewing Your Page 15
Creating a Typography Workspace 16
Chapter 2 Getting Type on your Page 21
Creating Text Frames 22
Text Flow 23
Threading Text Frames 27
Using the Story Editor 36
Cleaning up Text 38
Chapter 3 Character Formats 41
Text Selection Methods 42
Character Formatting Options 43
Readability 58
Chapter 4 Leading 61
Getting the Lead Out 62
(Not) Using Auto Leading 68
Keep it Consistent, Except . . . 69
Chapter 5 Letterspacing, Tracking, and Kerning 73
Letterspacing vs. Tracking 74
Tracking vs. Kerning 76
Kerning 82
Chapter 6 Small (but Important) Details 89
Typographer's Quotes 90
Apostrophes 91
Punctuation 91
Dashes 93
Ellipses 94
End Marks 94
Symbols 94
White Space Characters 95
The Glyphs Panel 97
Unicode 99
Ligatures, Diphthongs, and the Dotless! 103
Ornaments 105
Swash Characters 105
Oldstyle Figures 105
Contextual Alternates 106
Titling Alternates 106
Optical Sizes 107
Chapter 7 Alignment 109
Horizontal Alignment 110
Left Alignment 110
Justified Alignment (Justified with last line aligned left) 113
Centering Type 117
Right-Aligned Type 119
Other Justification Options 119
Combining Left and Right Alignment 121
Hanging Punctuation 122
Vertical Alignment 122
Chapter 8 Paragraph Indents and Spacing 125
First-Line Indents 126
Hanging Indents 129
Left and Right Indents 130
Space Before and Space After 132
Chapter 9 Breaking (and Not Breaking) Words, Lines, Paragraphs, and Pages 135
Hyphenation 136
Hyphenation Options 137
Discretionary Hyphens and Nonbreaking Hyphens 140
Hyphenation and User Dictionaries 142
Hyphenation Dos and Don'ts 143
The No Break Attribute 145
Break Characters 146
Keep Options 147
Chapter 10 Tabs, Tables, and Lists 151
Working with Tables 152
Bulleted and Numbered lists 165
Tabs 168
Chapter 11 Drop Caps 171
Creating a Simple Drop Cap 174
Drop Cap Aesthetics 176
Difficult Drop Caps 180
Chapter 12 Global Formatting with Styles 183
Defining Our Terms 184
Why Use Styles? 184
[Basic Paragraph] 185
Creating Styles 185
Applying Styles 187
Editing Styles 190
Loading Styles from Another Document 191
Organizing Styles 192
Combining Typefaces 194
A Typical Style Sheet 196
Character Styles 200
Paragraph Rules 204
Sequential Styles 204
Nested Styles 207
Nested Line Styles 209
GREP Styles 210
Object Styles 211
Table and Cell Styles 214
Chapter 13 Working with Text Wraps 217
Applying Text Wraps 218
Wrapping Type Around Irregularly Shaped Graphics 221
Ignoring a Text Wrap 227
Chapter 14 Pages, Margins, Columns, and Grids 231
Setting Up the Document 232
Setting Up Columns 240
Using Grids 243
Page Numbers and Running Heads 260
Bibliography 265
Index 269
