![]() Of course, in some situations-notably in centered matter-you may want specific shapes, but as is so often the case in typography, making what you want is easier than avoiding what you don’t. Distracting margin shapes like this disrupt the harmonious appearance of a page. It looks like someone-or something-took a bite out of this text. Your second concern is shapes: Line endings created automatically by your program may inadvertently yield distracting shapes along the margin, from steps, to divots, to bulges and skews.įigure 2. After I make hyphenation controls more liberal, the same text on the right shows a much less wild rag. The paragraph on the left displays a fairly wild rag, even though hyphenation is allowed. The first is the wildness of the rag: how much variation there is between the length of the long lines and the short lines.įigure 1. When managing ragged margins, you have two main concerns. It’s doubly odd because both Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress offer tools to give you control over your rags, but how to use them effectively isn’t discussed in the documentation. That’s odd, because the margin shapes and patterns created by lines of varying length can make a big difference in how your pages look. Unlike older typesetting systems, today’s page-layout programs no longer address the issue of aesthetic rag controls. The rags I’m referring to, of course, belong to blocks of type without justified margins, and the shapes that those rags create merit your attention. Aesthetic rags it’s such a poetic notion. ![]()
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