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InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign, Third Edition
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InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign, Third Edition

by Nigel French
February 2014
Beginner
312 pages
10h 18m
English
Adobe Press
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Chapter 8. Paragraph Indents and Spacing

Typography, like all communications media, relies on established conventions that are understood, often unconsciously, by its audience. One such convention is the chunking of our text into separate paragraphs, each of which represents a unit of thought. While there are several ways to indicate a new paragraph, two methods are most prevalent: indenting the first line and adding spacing between paragraphs. In this chapter I’m primarily concerned with the hows and whys of these two time-honored conventions, but I also look at the use of other types of indents for differentiating specific types of paragraph.

First-Line Indents

The humble first-line indent plays a crucial role in the readability of documents, ...

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