phps

Yet another excellent product from a small company, bought to be destroyed.

Now that I’m using a fixed-width space, I can see that the Character Style is also not able to keep tracking constant for the honorific/name phrases, even if I choose “apply Paragraph Style and preserve Character formatting”. Is there any way to override Paragraph justification settings for tracking in a particular phrase, besides the Tab method suggested above?

Thanks very much! Tried it and it seems to be an effective workaround. I’d still like to be able to control the spacing with just a style, (or a not-susceptible-to-justification space character)!

Thanks for the suggestion. That would be simple and great, but it doesn’t seem to work.

Thanks! I don't want different names/titles to line up with each other, but with other instances of the same name -- if Mr/Mister Smith and Prof/Professor Jones are having a long dialogue, it looks bad if different instances of "Mister Smith" are of different lengths. It seems to me that Publisher allows me to keep the tracking constant, using a Character Style, but not the spacing in between name and title, because that's a Paragraph Style feature.

I have a case where paragraph-independent control of word spacing is necessary: a dialogue with the speakers’ names and titles (e.g. Mr. Smith, Professor Jones) in small caps. I want the overall text justified, but the speakers’ names and titles to always be spaced the same, because they line up at the left edge and look bad if they are spaced differently on different lines.

It seems to be working for me, using the Book feature, to combine chapters that start on the left and chapters that start on the right, using Document Settings for each chapter, and setting Facing Pages, Arrange Horizontally, Start on Left, for chapters that start on the left. At least so far it outputs a PDF that looks right. I'm using three masters, one for "start right", one for "start left" and one for "interior".