![]() ![]() Gilbert) is, to use this “flush space” for the definition of tabstops –įor example: I want to have tabstops at 20%, 60%, 70%, 90 and 100% of a line which ist 31,4 inch long. The was a special kind of a “space” which is a big as the rest of the line. I try to write it a little bit extensivly … I hope you can understand the way it works. If you put another somewhere in this definition, the width of tabstops changes percental. If the line becomes longer the tabstops automatically changes with that: 12″-line: 4″, 10″ and 12″ … If the line would be 6 inch long, the first TabStop is at 2″, the second at 5″ and the third at 6″. The are starting and ending points of tab-definitions.Īfter such a definition-line you could jump to any of this tabstops by using the tab-key several times or by calling the tab-number oder … The and are the same in InDesign yet – en-space and em-space. With and different types of you could define a line of tabstops in this way: (I worked with compugraphic machines in the early eighties too … and I liked it!) I think that this is not the same thing L.V. ![]() (Sorry – I?m German and it is not so easy for me to explain this in English – may be, David, you can put my words in the right way … thanks for that!) We talked about flush spaces a long time ago, back in podcast episode 28.ĭo you use flush space? Do use it in different ways? Let us know below! So it won’t work for something like a table: It only evens out the space between each “chunk” on a line. Of course, auto-tab - I mean flush space - isn’t for all tabular material. For example, here I’ve added another flush space and then one more word: Now, the magical thing about the flush space is that it can update easily, always adjusting each space so that you always have the same amount distributed across the line. Note that in this example, there is only one line, not even followed by a return, so I had to use the Forced Justify alignment instead of the normal left justify: You could, of course, add your own keyboard shortcut to that character if you were going to use it a lot (with Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts). To insert a flush space, you typically need to use the Insert White Space menu (in the context menu or in the Type menu): See how the flush space fills up all the required space? In other words, it adds the same amount of space between each “section” of text - just like auto-tab! But no tabs were involved! I didn’t have to set any tab stops or anything. There are two tricks to do this: First, you need to Justify the text, and second you need to replace the spaces with Flush Spaces: For example, we want to add space between the name and phone number, and between the number and the address: Let’s change that here.Īs far as I can tell, the key is that people want a way to add an equal amount of space between items on a line, without having to worry about setting tab stops. The problem is that almost no one knows about it. As far as I can tell, InDesign does offer a feature just like this. We launched this week and someone posted an item wishing that InDesign would create “auto tabs” like the compugraphic 7500 ( see here). ![]()
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