Closing double quote wrapping to next line

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August 18, 2024
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I am editing a book in ID and have a strange wrapping issue. Take the line

...Let us by all means explore together!"

and by chance the final double quote comes at the very end of the line or rather just beyond it. In that event it wraps by itself as a lone character. I can fix this by making a small change to the tracking for that line but surely that should not be necessary. I would expect

together!"

to be treated as one word and kept together. Is there an option in the para style that will fix this?

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Correct answer James Gifford—NitroPress

There have been two instances so far but then it only became apparent when the final double quote was by chance right at the end of the line. Not quite sure anyway how one would insert a 'thin space' if one wanted to do that...

And you can use Find/Replace/GREP to get rid of any remaining ones, using the search string \s~} to locate ANY space type in front of a double closing quote.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Just to confirm...

There isn't a space between the ! and the " .

You are using the default InDesign settings.

No character style applied to the text.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

I could see a fussy author putting a thin space or the like ahead of the quote so that it doesn't bump the last letter. (Sigh.)

James Gifford—NitroPressCorrect answer

Legend

There have been two instances so far but then it only became apparent when the final double quote was by chance right at the end of the line. Not quite sure anyway how one would insert a 'thin space' if one wanted to do that...

And you can use Find/Replace/GREP to get rid of any remaining ones, using the search string \s~} to locate ANY space type in front of a double closing quote.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

I have never seen behavior such as you describe; valid punctuation is always treated as the last character of a word for line-break purposes. (At least, if there are any exceptions, I haven't encountered them. Although an em dash will break to the next line by itself, which I am not sure is incorrect behavior...)

I would guess you have some conflicting or otherwise unhappy combination of justification, hyphenation and tracking/kerning going on, and InDesign is trying hard to make all the rules happy at once. It happens, sometimes.

Does this happen with only one style, or with multiple/all styles in the doc? I'd look at any affected style/s and perhaps post snips of the Spacing/Indents, Hyphenation and Justification panels for it/one.

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