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Justification Issues with Paragraph/Character Styles

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August 5, 2019
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I have separate paragraph styles and character styles for a document where I've had to use nested styles.

My issue is that each line was initially set up as its own paragraph style but I had to change to character styles to ensure nested styles would populate with the document.

I want the first line and second line of each paragraph to align left and retain the main paragraph as fully justified. At present everything is fully justified. Is there a way to either amend the individual character style or set up a minimum justification to ensure it shows up as justified as appropriate?

For example:

FIRST LINE OF PARAGRAPH

Second line of paragraph

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, debitis commune et nam, sea reque regione ut. Dicunt facilisi ex vel, mei id inani euismod vituperata, pertinax quaerendum appellantur at nec. Per id essent eripuit. Te quis nostro dissentiunt qui. Mel repudiare suscipiantur an, sea soleat possit bonorum an. Augue tollit aliquip nam eu. Cu cum consectetuer definitionem, eos ad ceteros inimicus imperdiet, ut posse interesset sit.

FIRST LINE OF PARAGRAPH

Second line of paragraph

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, debitis commune et nam, sea reque regione ut. Dicunt facilisi ex vel, mei id inani euismod vituperata, pertinax quaerendum appellantur at nec. Per id essent eripuit. Te quis nostro dissentiunt qui. Mel repudiare suscipiantur an, sea soleat possit bonorum an. Augue tollit aliquip nam eu. Cu cum consectetuer definitionem, eos ad ceteros inimicus imperdiet, ut posse interesset sit.

I cannot change section manually once populated so I'm hoping there could be a setting that I am missing.

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annah16981581

Participant

Have you tried hitting shift>return at the end of each sentence? Works sometimes...

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Shift return does not seperate paragraphs, only lines and the first line is with any form of justify justified, so it is exactly what is not to be redommended.

John Mensinger

Community Expert

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're after. It seems simply that you want mixed justification in a paragraph style. You can't really have that, but maybe if you can clarify your objectives, someone can help.

indesigned wrote
My issue is that each line was initially set up as its own paragraph style but I had to change to character styles to ensure nested styles would populate with the document.

I can't unravel this statement to the extent that I understand it.

FIRST LINE OF PARAGRAPH
Second line of paragraph
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, debitis commune et nam, sea reque regione ut. Dicunt facilisi ex vel, mei id inani euismod vituperata, pertinax quaerendum appellantur at nec. Per id essent eripuit. Te quis nostro dissentiunt qui. Mel repudiare suscipiantur an, sea soleat possit bonorum an. Augue tollit aliquip nam eu. Cu cum consectetuer definitionem, eos ad ceteros inimicus imperdiet, ut posse interesset sit.

I'm pretty sure that'll have to be 3 paragraphs no matter how you slice it. What constitutes the end of the "first line"?

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SJRiegel

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My issue is that each line was initially set up as its own paragraph style but I had to change to character styles to ensure nested styles would populate with the document.

I don't understand why this would be necessary - can you explain further? Justify is a paragraph-level attribute, so it can't vary in different lines of the same paragraph.

If each section is exactly three paragraphs, then you could easily keep them as separate, use the nested styles in each as needed. Then you can use the Next Style settings in Paragraph Styles to cascade your styles as needed.

unique_Essence5EB8Author

Participant

The reason being is the information is populated from a system into InDesign and it does not recognize each section of text and pulls only one style through the entire of the document. The only remedy was set up nested styles in paragraph styles.

I've tried Next STyles but it does not change anything.

John Mensinger

Community Expert

indesigned wrote
I've tried Next STyles but it does not change anything.

Well, Next Style is used when you have multiple Paragraph styles, and now I see you can only have one, so it wouldn't apply.

Nested styles can only apply Character styles within a Paragraph style. Text alignment/justification is a paragraph attribute—a Character style cannot control it—i.e., you can't use nested styles to create mixed justification.

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