Text in InDesign

InDesign

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

- 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. 

- adding text typing, pasting (with(out) style info), placing

- selecting text double,triple,quadruple,quintuple clicks

- show hidden characters

- glyphs (Open Font!) via glyph panel automatically in current font list of recently used create own customized glyphs sets

- special characters

- quotation marks specifiy which ones to use for different languages

- white spaces different sizes

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)

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

Effects

- text to path

- inline graphics

- text wrap (in conjunction with paths!)

- gradients

Sources:

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