Composition Preferences

The Highlight settings let you control which parts of the text are highlighted to indicate composition or typographic violations or substitutions .

The Highlight Settings let you choose which typographic problems are displayed with a highlight.

To set the highlight options:

• Set the Highlight options as follows :
  
  

  An example of text with a highlight applied.

  

  • Keep Violations displays lines that have been broken in violation of the Keep With settings that you chose for the paragraph options.

  • H&J Violations highlights those areas that violate the hyphenation or justification controls.

    Tip

    H&J Violations occur when InDesign has no other way to set the text except to break the H&J controls.

  • Custom Tracking/Kerning highlights the text with tracking or kerning applied to it.

  • Substituted Fonts highlights characters that are substituted for a font that is not installed in the computer system.

    Tip

    This is the famous pink highlight for a missing font that many people see when they import text or change typefaces.

    Tip

    If the shape of the uninstalled font exists in the Adobe Type Manager database, the shape of the font is approximated. If not, a default font is used.

  • Substituted Glyphs highlights Open Type characters that have been substituted with alternate glyphs.

You can also control the effect of the Text Wrap settings and how text wraps around objects .

The Text Wrap controls in the Composition category.

To set the text wrap options:

• Choose one of the following from the Text Wrap options:
  
  

  • Justify Text Next to an Object forces text next to an object to be justified if it wraps around an object inside the frame .

    The effect of setting the Justify Text Next to an Object.

    

  • Skip by Leading forces text that has wrapped around an object to move to the next available leading increment. This avoids problems where text may not line up across columns or frames .

    Notice how, when Skip By Leading is turned off, the text does not line up across columns. When it is turned on, the text does line up.

    

  • Text Wrap Only Affects Text Beneath causes InDesign text wrap to work only on text below the object, rather than text above and below the object.

Tip

Some designers turn this on because they want InDesign work more similarly to QuarkXPress. Don't do it! You're only limiting yourself from some of the more interesting effects that InDesign offers.