Tutorial: Adobe Indesign CS2. Professional Typography

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Adobe Indesign CS2. Professional Typography

Part I: Character Formats Chapter 1. Getting Started An InDesign Type Map: Where to Find Stuff Viewing Your Page Creating a Typography Workspace Up Next Chapter 2. Going with the Flow A Blank Sheet: Typing on Your Page Text Flow Threading Text Frames Using Placeholder Text Pasting Text Importing Word Text Up Next Chapter 3. Character Reference Less is More, Maybe Type Anatomy Type Classification Character Formatting Options Readability Up Next Chapter 4. Getting the Lead Out How Much Is Enough? (Not) Using Auto Leading Keep It Consistent, Except. . . Leading Menu Options and Keyboard Shortcuts See Also Up Next Chapter 5. Kern, Baby, Kern When to Kern Metrics Kerning Optical Kerning Manual Kerning How Much to Kern Tracking When to Track Controlling Widows and Orphans Up Next Chapter 6. Sweating the Small Stuff: Special Characters, White Space, and Glyphs Typographer's Quotes Apostrophes Dashes Ellipses End Marks White Space Characters The Glyphs Palette Footnotes Footnote Options Up Next Chapter 7. OpenType: The New Frontier in Font Technology Ligatures Discretionary Ligatures Ordinals/Raised and Lowered Characters Swash Characters Titling Alternates Small Caps Fractions Oldstyle Figures Contextual Alternates Opticals Glyph Positioning Stylistic Sets Up Next Part II: Paragraph Formats Chapter 8. Aligning Your Type Centering Type Clean Shaven or Rugged: Justified vs. Ragged Type How InDesign Justifies Type Balancing Ragged Lines Right-Aligned Type Optical Margin Alignment Indent to Here Vertical Alignment Up Next Chapter 9. Paragraph Indents and Spacing First-Line Indents Space Before and Space After Paragraph Indents Up Next Chapter 10. First Impressions: Creating Great Opening Paragraphs Creating a Simple Drop Cap Drop Cap Aesthetics Tricks with Drop Caps Coming Unstuck with Drop Caps Up Next Chapter 11. Don't Fear the Hyphen Hyphenation Options Discretionary Hyphens and Nonbreaking Hyphens Hyphenation and User Dictionaries Up Next Chapter 12. Mastering Tabs and Tables Setting Tabs Creating Decimal Tabs Using Tab Leaders Reply Forms Numbered Lists Right Indent Tab Working with Tables Creating a Table Working with Rows and Columns Working with Table Cells Up Next Part III: Styles Chapter 13. Stylin' with Paragraph and Character Styles Creating Styles Applying Styles Editing Styles Redefining Styles Creating Default Styles A Typical Style Sheet Up Next Chapter 14. Mo' Style Paragraph Rules Sequential Styles Nested Styles Object Styles Up Next Part IV: Page Layout Chapter 15. Setting Up Your Document Choosing a Page Size Determining Margins Determining Column Width Changing Columns Break Characters Page Numbers Section Markers Layers Up Next Chapter 16. Everything in Its Right Place: Using Grids Things to Consider Your Grid Tool Kit Calculating the Height of the Type Area Align to Grid First Baseline Options Snap to Guides Create Guides Up Next Chapter 17. Text Wraps: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Applying Text Wraps Wrapping Type Around Irregularly Shaped Graphics Text Wrap Preferences Ignoring Text Wrap Anchored Objects Up Next Chapter 18. Type Effects Gradient Type Stroked Type Drop Shadows Custom Type with Create Outlines Path Type Vertical (Stacked) Alignment Transparency Effects Shaping Text Frames Sheared Type