InDesign paragraph composer changes rag for no reason

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November 24, 2020
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I am having a problem where InDesign is changing the line-breaks in a paragraph when absolutely nothing has changed in the paragraph. It seems to be happening on paragraphs that break over two columns, or across pages. If the story is bumped by a line or two somewhere else in the story, in a totally unrelated paragraph, this 'unaffected' paragraph changes it's line-breaks. This is very frustrating when I am a day or two from sending my book to the printer and I have spent time fine-tuning the rag of every paragraph.

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Correct answer Barb Binder

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Barb Binder

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@Rowatski

Use this page to log bugs and feature requests. The InDesign team will see them:
https://indesign.uservoice.com/

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

barbara_a7746676

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InDesign has two ways to compose paragraphs: Single Line and Paragraph Composer. Paragraph Composer is the default and with that selected, InDesign will change line breaks that the software thinks is best looking, based on certain built-in rules. If you don't want your line breaks to change, choose Single Line.

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RowatskiAuthor

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Thanks Barbara,

I am familiar with these two composers. But what I don't understand is why the Paragraph Composer changes the line breaks when a paragraphs position changes relative to a page or column break. The text within the paragraph has not changed at all. It has only been pushed down by a line or two by changes in a previous paragraph.

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Anonymous

I've found the same, lately.

Paragraph Composer is making more changes than in previous versions, sometimes for no good reason. And a couple of times, when type changes are made in a neighboring paragraph, not in the one the Composer re-composes.

Weird.

And causing much more work when finalizing the document. Every tweak I make causes something elsewhere to readjust, unexpectedly. Not in the way InDesign handled line endings a couple of versions ago.

Maybe Adobe changed its algorithm?

I'm dropping my documents back to 2019.

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