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Additional formatting - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Book
Additional formatting
- [Instructor] This movie is something of a catch all where having applied the principal paragraph styles and given our document structure, we then go through it page by page and we find any other text that requires a different treatment. I have an example of that on page 10. We have this recurring song which needs a different treatment. So I'm going to select this and I want to make it into a block quote essentially. To do this, I'm going to change the alignment to left aligned. That's not going to affect this text, but for other similar text that may get the same style, where the lines are longer, that will be important. And I want to indent it on the right and the left. So I'm going to make the left indent 24 points, that's twice current first line indent, but then, I'll come to the first line indent and make that minus 12. Now, visually, I could've just made it the left indent 12 and the first line indent zero, on this particular instance, but there will be occasions where this…
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Creating and applying the body style6m 12s
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Section paragraph styles4m 51s
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Section paragraph styles: Using a nested style3m 50s
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Creating and applying chapter number styles5m 37s
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Automating chapter title formatting5m 56s
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Align text to a baseline grid1m 57s
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Additional formatting4m 28s
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Adding and formatting a footnote3m
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Automating character styles7m 16s
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Adding the running header6m 6s
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Removing unwanted headers5m 9s
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