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Why a sentence starts with a new line while there is room for more words?

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January 20, 2018
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Hi all,

no indent at all ("0") and still a sentence is being cut off and start at next line while there is still enough space for short words...

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks all!

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Correct answer Jongware

It must be the paragraph composer.

Moving either or both the small words to the previous line does not leave enough room for the next word "solutions", so there would be a huge gap at the end of that line. That is exactly the kind of balancing act the paragraph composer does: it is better to have four lines with a score 0,-1,-1,0 than 0,-1,0,-3, where the last full line is much shorter.

(Numbers are for illustration of the idea only. The actual line weighting may differ by as little as a tenth of a million or smaller.)

Barb Binder

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Hi anatg33680116,

It was my third guess—the paragraph composer. The idea here is that the paragraph composers adjust the word spacing for the good of the entire paragraph, and the single line composers only focus on a single line at a time.

Before:

After changing to the Word-Ready Single-Line Composer:

You still have a very ragged right edge because hyphenation is off.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Barb,

and I wonder why the Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer is used for English text.

Wouldn't be the Adobe Paragraph Composer or the Adobe Single-line Composer be appropriate?

Regards,
Uwe

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Uwe:

Sure, I'd opt for the Adobe Paragraph Composer for English text. The file has a few Hebrew styles names so I'll wager a guess that Anat is using the English Hebrew edition, which will default to the Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer. There was absolutely no reflow in the pages I was given when I changed composers from the Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer to Adobe Paragraph Composer and back, so I chose to leave it alone and focus my answer on paragraph vs single line. As a trainer charged with explaining InDesign features, I tend to proceed cautiously with information about the composers and offer it when there's interest. But that's me. Take it away, Uwe,

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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anatg33680116Author

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Thanks guys, Im afraid it's not about hidden characters to other graphics... pls see this screen shot, do you have another idea? you can see that, for example, the word "ad" at the beginning of 3rd line, could easily fit into end of line 2. same: word "AR" in line 4 could fit into end of line 3. why do they move to next line?

thanks in advance!

Abambo

Community Expert

do you have “balance lines” on?

https://indesignsecrets.com/when-to-use-balance-ragged-lines.php

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Abambo

Community Expert

There is probably a simple reason for this, but without seeing the document, I can only guess. Text may wrap around graphics, short words may contain nonbreaking spaces, the non-break property may be assigned...

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Type > Show Hidden Characters to see if there's a code in the line, such as a hard return, that you can delete.

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