From the course: Designing a Book
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Recomposing text
- [Presenter] Continuing with our book project, here is where are, we've placed the text, we've done the major formatting of the text, we've placed the graphics, we've anchored the graphics into the text flow. Now we're going to turn our attention to fixing problems with the composition of our text. We'll fix short last lines and H&J violations, widows, and orphans. But before we do that, I just want show you a problem that may occur for you and how we fix that problem. So here I am, and I have a blank page next to my left-hand page. I have a continuous text flow. Remember, we are using primary text frames here and the story is flowing from one to the next. Except, sometimes InDesign forgets to do this, we need to give it a little nudge. So, if you see a blank page and you think, wait a minute, what's going on there? Here is how we can force our text to recompose. One way would just be to give that text frame a little nudge. That alone will do it, so I'll just undo that. Another way…
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