Change font in a text

[ulrik jeshansen]

I am writing a book from two different sources. One isgoing to be in serif and the other is sans serif. But when I insert one in the other the font will extend to some other paragrafs on both before and after.

[Mike Witherell · Accepted solution]

Hi Ulrik,

I don't know if you are already doing this, but: You would need to style your text using at least 2 different paragraph styles. One style for serif font, and another style for sans-serif font. You should be using hard returns (Return/Enter) between paragraphs; not soft returns (Shift+Return/Enter).

[Bill Silbert]

In addition to what Mike has said you should be aware that there will always be differences within every font in terms of tracking and kerning. This will make your text rag differently from one version to another. You might want to use the InDesign feature to balance ragged lines in order to not have glaring rag issues when you change from one font to the next. You can do this when you create the paragraph styles through the Indents and Spacing section of the New Paragraph Style dialog window. You should expect, however, to have to adjust lines manually at times since InDesign (in my opinion) does not always make the best choices when it automatically adjusts the rag.