Tight letterspacing where footnote reference is

We are getting closer. I'm guessing you are using an ME version of InDesign, with direction controls? Check the direction of the text. When I copy the text from that file to another one, you can see how it changes the order of the text.

When I change the paragraph composer from Adobe World Ready Paragraph Composer (which is the correct one to use for the Middle East version), to the Adobe Paragraph Composer it straightens it right out. I don't know what problems that would cause elsewhere though—I'm just watching that one paragraph. I'm still thinking it might be a directional issue. I don't have those controls in my version of InDesign so I cannot play with that part of it any further.

On what I think is an unrelated note, that one paragraph is using a mixture of the English UK dictionary and the English USA dictionary.

~Barb

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Very glad you were able to get back on track. It was a learning opportunity for all of us.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Correct answer

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We are getting closer. I'm guessing you are using an ME version of InDesign, with direction controls? Check the direction of the text. When I copy the text from that file to another one, you can see how it changes the order of the text.

When I change the paragraph composer from Adobe World Ready Paragraph Composer (which is the correct one to use for the Middle East version), to the Adobe Paragraph Composer it straightens it right out. I don't know what problems that would cause elsewhere though—I'm just watching that one paragraph. I'm still thinking it might be a directional issue. I don't have those controls in my version of InDesign so I cannot play with that part of it any further.

On what I think is an unrelated note, that one paragraph is using a mixture of the English UK dictionary and the English USA dictionary.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Summayah5FC7Author

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Yes i am using the ME version . The direction of the text is left to right as below.

Thats right. When i change from world ready paragraph composer to adobe paragraph composer, the problem goes. Not sure what effect that has had on the rest of the Doc.

I checked and was using arabic dictionary. I've changed it to English UK. Thanks for spotting that.

Thank you for your help.

Summayah5FC7Author

Inspiring

By changing the the normal paragraph composer the arabic text inside the paragraphs becomes individual letters. But i'll just make them into seperate paragraphs and assign world ready paragraph composer.

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It seems to me it's just the paragraph that have a few words on the final line that are impacted. I keystroked the controls that relate to spacing and did not get the same result. Are there overrides on the paragraphs?

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Peter Spier

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You haven't by any chance selected that text when making the footnote reference?

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@Summayah5FC7:

After I posted my answer I wondered if maybe there was a GREP style in play that impacted the end of the paragraph, but it was the only footnote I could see in your screenshot.

Now knowing that they always fall at the end of the line, could you share a screenshot of the paragraph style definition? Or could you copy that one paragraph with the note to a new InDesign file and share that file so that we can take a look ourselves?

You could put it on a file sharing server like dropbox and post a link here (public) or click on my avatar and message me directly (private).

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Summayah5FC7Author

Inspiring

There is a 'no break grep style' which is applied to the last 7 characters of each paragraph

.{7}\r

Having another look, not all the last lines have this problem.

Summayah5FC7Author

Inspiring

The word each other! on this page is squashed.

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Well it's either letterspacing values or the lack of actual spaces between the letters.

Let's rule the latter option out first. Select the word "this", and tap control or command Y to open up story editor. Be sure that Type > Show Hidden Characters is enabled. Do you see a little dots in front and after "this"? If not, add them.

If yes, select "viathsiplace" and reset your kerning and tracking values:

~Barb

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