Text in InDesign

InDesign

Textframes

• multiple columns
• linkable to other frames (threading)-> flowing text
• movable,sizable
• auto fit to content

Typography

- character palette

• General:
  • typeface family
  • typeface (maps, when family is changed), NO software approximation available
  • style
  • leading
  • tracking
  • kerning
    • manual
    • optical pair kerning (based on calculated space between chars)
    • metrics (pairs defined in font set)
  • horizontal & vertical scaling
  • baseline shift
  • skew value
  • superscript
  • subscript
  • optical margin alignment (mostly: punctuation marks outside frame -> text even)

• OpenTypeStuff:

• • contextual replacements
  • type styles: all caps, small caps (auto mapping to predesigned), strike-through, etc…
  • ligatures (auto substitution)
  • glyphs
    • via glyph panel
    • automatically in current font
    • list of recently used
    • create own customized glyphs sets

paragraph palette

• • composing engines (single or multiple lines)
  • justification, 7 versions, +(set word and char. spacing ranges),
  • alignment
  • hyphenation (extensive settings)
  • drop caps

baseline offset

• Ascent
  • The height of the “d” character in the font falls below the top inset of the text frame.
• Cap Height
  • The top of uppercase letters touch the top inset of the text frame.
• Leading
  • Use the text’s leading value as the distance between the baseline of the first line of text and the top inset of the frame.
• X Height
  • The height of the “x” character in the font falls below the top inset of the frame.
• Fixed
  • Specify the distance between the baseline of the first line of text and the top inset of the frame
• Min
  • Select a minimum value for the baseline offset.

Effects

• text to path
• inline graphics
• text wrap (in conjunction with paths!)
• gradients

adding text

• typing
• pasting (with(out) style info)
• placing (hot-linking)

• selecting text
  • double,triple,quadruple,quintuple clicks

Misc

• show hidden characters
• special characters
• quotation marks
  • specifiy which ones to use for different languages
• white spaces
  • different sizes

Sources

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6fb3a.html

http://www.scribd.com/doc/238960/Adobe-InDesign-InDepth-Typography