How to Adjust Visual Alignment for Right-Aligned Multi-Line Headings in InDesign

The only consistent way to get the level of control you're seeking, especially with being able to tweak characters beyond the nominal frame line, is —

• Use an artificial right margin; e.g. set the body text in a few mm or points.
• Use a paragraph style for the heading that allows either one line, perfectly aligned right, or allows multiple lines for multi-line heads so that each line can be right-space tweaked, including "outward," to get the exact alignment desired.

Things like inserting invisible characters is a hack (that I occasionally use, but only in "art" layouts, not running text) and the need to do "negative" kerning etc. means some phantom space has to be built in to allow it. I can't think of a second approach, overall, for a running document.

Use multiple paragraphs, and adjust the spacing for each line. If needed, use two or three styles to keep top/bottom spacing consistent. But each could have its right spacing tweaked for perfect visual alignment.

There is a trick to do that: at the end of each line type a dot (or any other character), then apply negative kerning to the insertion point between the 'real' last character (colon, T, N) and the following dot.

You can make those characters invisible by applying the Paper colour.

Problem is of course that those dots appear in the table of contents, so you'll have to delete them there after you generate the TOC.

This is a variant of forcing letters out of the frame on the left in left-aligned text. There you can use invisible characters (such as a discretionary hyphen) for the dummy characters, but unfortunately that doesn't work in right-aligned text.

Yes, but this makes it even worse. I want to manuallly kern right aligned text but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it.




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Have you tried Optical Margin Alignment setting?