The appearance of text on a page or in WYSIWYG pane depends on a complex interaction of font design, paragraph alignment, word and letter spacing, and hyphenation settings. Such interaction is coherent across all GN4 modules (i.e., Articles main tab, Pages main tab, and I4 all use the same text justification and hyphenation engine).

Justification

The text justification engine is single-line based, thus computed for each line separately. Miles 33 considers this method more suitable and straightforward than multi-line (paragraph) composing, especially when editing text to fit. The multi-line composing (not available in GN4) often causes troubles in text which is one line underset or overset - while you are editing longer paragraphs to bring text in measure, it may suddenly become too short or too long for two or three lines (that's because entire paragraphs are recomposed).

You can tune the way the text justification works by enabling or disabling letter spacing, selecting the best method of line spacing, and deciding how to handle overfull lines.

You can write text, wrapped on the width of the newspaper column ("justified") or wrapped on the windows width ("unjustified").

You can easily switch from justified to unjustified mode, and set defaults.

Warning: the functions described in this chapter, are not available when editing text on page, as during text editing in Fred4 it is not possible to turn off the justification.

 

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