By experience, I found this Rule of thumb: a Glyph Scaling of -1% (99%) has the same effect in space optimisation as a - 5 Tracking Value. Therefore a 90% Word spacing (-10%), equals a Tracking somehow between - 20/-30, depending on the font.

Most fonts have a Word Space somehow between 200 and 300 units. A 10% Word spacing equals a Tacking Value of 25 (units). The average Word Spacing in a font is 1/4 of an EM, which is 250 units. The Letter Spacing has the most significant effect, followed by the Glyph Scaling the Word Spacing has the slightest impact. The %values are very abstract (at least to most of the designers I know).Д«ut you can approximately convert the %-values into EM-units to get a better feeling for what these %-values mean. >В a Glyph Scaling somehow between 1-3% you practically canвЂ™t see with the naked eye. Left-aligned columns this is very annoying and time-consuming.ДЇor a Body Tex (justified) I use usuallyВ theseВ settings for a line lengthВ between 45-75 characters: I don't know how you think about this issue going manually through the text to eliminate these 1-letter last words especially in This issue I also solve in ID with a GREP. The possibilityВ to force-preventВ a В«SINGEL LETTER LAST WORDВ» in a line. Would be great if AP would offer this possibility in the future. Would be thrilled to have as automation in AP:ДЄ checkbox which preventsВ hyphening a Word in the 1st line of a column! There are other two hyphen related functions which I could imagine that many designers The Paragraph end zone п»ї has non-effect onВ a justified text. In ID the Paragraph end zone п»ї in the Hyphenation section effects only left-aligned/ right-aligned/ text. If you made the right settings in the Justification pane (see below myВ standard settings). from my experience,В they do not make the line before to loose or too tightВ ( Paragraph Composer). If youВ force two words/runts in the last line of a paragraph with a No Break to stay together. Would be great if AD would have this one day. 10 characters at the end of a paragraph / not at the end of a column which is an orphan.ДЇor runts, iD does not offer an easyВ 1-click automated processВ which is annoying. However, having an automated process (GREP)В is from my experience much better to get rid of runts.ДЇor runts, I intend max. The alternative is to change asВ Bhikkhu pointed out to change manually the tracking. But the great advantage is the a utomation. By the way, InDesign is not offering thisДЇunctionality and is not using the term В«runtВ».ДЄ GREP style for the Runts is just an annoying workaround. How much signs are permissible for В« RuntsВ». I would further suggest giving the user in the Flow Window the possibility to define ThatвЂ™s why I (Blatner) like the term вЂњruntвЂќ when talking about short last-lines in a paragraph. Widows are single last lines stranded at the top of a column.) (Orphans are single first lines stranded at the bottom of a column.

The terms Orphans and Widows are reserved for other typographic problems. Those terms definitely do not describe short last lines at the end of a paragraph. while some people call these widows and other people call them orphans, I agree with David Blatner how proposed the term В«runtВ» and who pointed out that: You called them widows which I think is confusing and not correct in this context. Some call them orphans or widows others call them runts. or a short lines of text with up to 10-signs at the last line of a paragraph.ДЄn exact term of this typographic crime is vague and (historically) does not exist at all. In typography, a В«runtВ» occurs when the last line of a paragraph ends with: I suggest using the term В« runtВ» instead of В« widowedВ».Дavid Blatner introduced the term В« runtВ» for this typographic problem. In this context, the term widow is not a well-chosen terminology.ДЄctually, it is wrong. You used in your Flow Window the term В« Prevent widowed last linesВ».

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