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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 book template by Book Design Made Simple

April 19, 2023 By Glenna Collett 8 Comments

Laptop showing Book Design Made Simple's InDesign Book Template. What exactly is an InDesign book template? It’s a blank InDesign document that has all the background work done for you. When you open a template, you’ll see an untitled document that’s already set up with InDesign preferences, trim size, margins, and styles.

Our InDesign book template is a companion to Book Design Made Simple, the only book that guides you through every step of designing your own book using Adobe InDesign. We believe that anyone can learn to craft a well designed book, and now we’ve created an InDesign book template to get you started more quickly. [Read more…]

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

Advanced live index features in InDesign

November 7, 2022 By Fiona Raven 2 Comments

Live index showing advanced features.InDesign’s live index includes some great advanced features: you can add italics to the index, add bold page numbers for illustrations, and even create a live index across several documents using InDesign’s Book feature.

Be sure to first read our earlier blog post, Create a live index in InDesign, to learn the basics of creating a live index. [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: Book feature, index, paragraph styles, typesetting

Writing in InDesign: Why and how

May 9, 2022 By Glenna Collett 7 Comments

Writing in InDesign opening graphic.Back when Fiona started Book Design Made Simple, she decided that writing in InDesign would be easiest. (After all, it was her native habitat.) And now one of our readers has admitted to doing the same. So we thought we’d explore the various reasons why anyone would want to write in a layout program. For us it worked perfectly. How about you? [Read more…]

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

What type size should I use?

January 10, 2022 By Glenna Collett 2 Comments

Graphic showing type sizes for book genres.In Book Design Made Simple, we suggest type sizes that should work in most situations for adult readers. But there are so many other situations! What about children’s books? What about large type books? Reference books? In this article we’ll suggest solutions for these kinds of books. And we’ll only discuss printed books; with ebooks, the reader can enlarge or reduce the type size to whatever works for them. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Book Page Design Tagged With: children's books, paragraph styles, typesetting

InDesign endnotes go live in CC2018

November 6, 2017 By Fiona Raven 23 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 14 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 Fiona Raven 60 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: Book feature, contents, InDesign updates, paragraph styles

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