chapter 12 Managing Indention and Alignment
A typesetter spends a lot of time pushing things around. Indention involves
pushing margins. Alignment means pushing characters.
Indention (the related word indentation normally isn’t applied to type) can
be fraught with problems because desktop software programs generally base
their techniques on word processing styles rather than typesetting precedents.
Alignment can be complicated because it’s mostly a visual process, and sightless
program settings may often get you close but not quite on target.
Kinds of Indents
Indents are signposts for the eye. They flag the beginnings of new paragraphs,
they id ...
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