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Key terms related to multipage layouts: Common typographic issues

Key terms related to multipage layouts: Common typographic issues - InDesign Tutorial

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Key terms related to multipage layouts: Common typographic issues

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In this lesson, we will be talking about orphans, widows, runs, regs and rivers. Now, these terms might sound strange when you first hear them, but if you are familiar with typesetting, you probably already came across some of them. So, let's see in InDesign how we first of all can recreate these problems or issues with our body copy and then learn also how to eliminate them. First, let's talk about rivers. This is something that you will mainly notice if you are using narrow column width and also justification put together and you can make things worse if you are not using hyphenation. So this is something that you can control in the paragraph formatting options. Here if you have hyphenation off and you have the alignment set to one of the justification options and then you just reduce the text width or the text frames width you will start introducing rivers. So here already I can point out one and another section where we have these gaps in the text and we call it usually rivers…

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