Are there situations where FM's "spread" control (in Paragraph Designer) can become inoperable, or perhaps can be counteracted by some other setting, in such a way that it will be able to change the tracking on some paragraphs, but seem to be useless on others, no matter how you set it? These are all fully justified paragraphs, with a normal default spread of negative 1. The Word Spacing is also set to the same percentages on all paragraphs.
I've been trying to bump down to the next line an en dash that needs to be directly followed by a "46," followed by a nonbreaking space, a degree sign, and finally a capital "C" for "Celsius"), but currently, that en dash stubbornly wants to sit by itself at the very end of the line, with the "46" sitting at the beginning of the next line....which is no good! I figured the easiest way to keep this temperature together is to nudge the en dash to the line below, joining the rest of the temperature range....but there is no value, negative or positive, that I can put into the spread control that makes any difference whatsoever on the paragraph! It's very odd....I don't think I can recall ever seeing this happen before. I tried the spread control on the next paragraph, too -- a five line paragraph -- and changing a neg. 1 spread to neg 2 or neg 3, and then positive 1, 2, and 3 all did nothing at all ....no words broke onto other lines. It's not become completely inoperable on the entire document though; I an able to change some paragraphs with minor changes in the spread....but for some reason, not these two paragraphs (and possibly others --- I've only checked these two). Quark would give me a way to bump any character at the end of a line to the next line and everything stays justified, but Frame doesn't seem to have this ability....so I need to use that spread control sometimes.
UPDATE: I just now had success by changing a setting I usually never play with, the "Word Spacing" percentages....changing a few of those finally bumped the en dash down as I wanted. But I'd still very curious about the spread control ineffectiveness --- if it sounds like a glitch perhaps (I've found nothing in google, thus far), or if I'm just ignorant of some other FM setting that can work against the spread, so that changing the spread will accomplishes nothing...? I compared the paragrah settings on the problem paragraph vs. one in which the spread control worked, and everythign was the same on both that I could see...all were set to our default paragraph style. I'm at a loss! Hope I was able to make everything clear enough...thanks in advance--! (oh, and if it helps, this is the 2015 FM, with all current updates installed: version 13.0.5.547)
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