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Paragraph Styles


Nicely typeset book pageBelow you'll find links to all the information about paragraph styles that’s available on our website, book, videos, and blog.

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Excerpts from Book Design Made Simple

  • Hyphenation and justification settings: make your text look fabulous

 

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Below are all the blog posts with the Paragraph Styles tag, starting with the most recent post.

InDesign endnotes go live in CC2018

November 6, 2017 By Fiona Raven 14 Comments

CC 2018 InDesign Updates - InDesign endnotes.Adobe’s 2018 update for InDesign includes a great new feature for book designers—live InDesign endnotes. Until now, footnotes and endnotes could be imported from Word to InDesign, but only footnotes continued to be live and linked, allowing us to insert and delete them without messing up the numbering system. Now we have the same flexibility with endnotes! [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: contents, footnotes/endnotes, InDesign updates, paragraph styles, text frames

InDesign footnotes: an alternate typesetting method

October 8, 2017 By Glenna Collett 12 Comments

asterisks for InDesign footnotesIf your book has footnotes, you’re probably using automatic InDesign footnotes in your layout. And that’s great! But what if you compiled your footnotes in a separate Word document or didn’t use the automatic footnote feature in Word or InDesign?

Before Word and InDesign added their automatic footnote features, and well before Fiona and I met each other, we both invented a way—interestingly, the same way—to lay out InDesign footnotes manually for print books. In this blog post, I’ll explain the layout method that we both used—it still works perfectly.

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Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: footnotes/endnotes, paragraph styles, text frames, typesetting

Using the Book feature in InDesign

January 9, 2017 By Glenna Collett 43 Comments

Book feature for hardcover bookInDesign’s Book feature can be handy! Let’s say you’re working on a book with lots of images and/or chapters. And the file sizes are enormous. In fact, they are so big that you thought it would be smart to divide the book into separate documents for parts or chapters. That’s exactly what we did with Book Design Made Simple. It was more convenient for us to swap smaller sections back and forth than to send the entire book each time. All the parts or chapters were linked together at the end using InDesign’s Book feature. So this blog post explains how to create a Book file, or as we call it, “book” a book.

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Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: contents, InDesign updates, paragraph styles

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