Feature request for Publisher 2: Balance Ragged Lines support

[Bit Disappointed]

We've come so far with Publisher that there's room for simple but effective features.

One simple way to automatically and beautifully prevent ugly, and to be honest, amateurish headlines and designs is InDesign's simple
Balance Ragged Lines style option that balances ragged aligned text across multiple lines:

It is a feature that in Adobe InDesign is part of Adobe Paragraph Composer, which "shifts text to ensure that the paragraph has consistent text density and is visually appealing." and I quite like how it works. It's automation working against the small, ugly details that I often see when people have used cheap programs for a book or printed material - or have used their program without professional knowledge.

[Markus van der Westhuizen]

Definitely a +1 from me

[Juhani]

Yes, please, balance ragged lines! One of the missing features Publisher needs ASAP (but not before spanned columns, which is even more crucial).

[Nela]

Bumping this up because I can't find a workaround for my situation.
I'm using document titles or chapter headings as running headers, and Publisher doesn't seem to have an option to ignore a forced line break (at least I'm not seeing it). Manually breaking up the title/heading also breaks the running heather into new lines. That won't do.

[MikeTO]

2 minutes ago, Nela said:

Bumping this up because I can't find a workaround for my situation.
I'm using document titles or chapter headings as running headers, and Publisher doesn't seem to have an option to ignore a forced line break (at least I'm not seeing it). Manually breaking up the title/heading also breaks the running heather into new lines. That won't do.

Without an option to ignore a line break, there's no way to easily do what you want. The simplest option would be to eliminate the line break and instead set Right Indent for that individual heading (override your paragraph style) to a value that will break the line at the desired point. I tested this and it's not hard to do and works perfectly.

Cheers

[Nela]

5 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

The simplest option would be to eliminate the line break and instead set Right Indent for that individual heading (override your paragraph style) to a value that will break the line at the desired point. I tested this and it's not hard to do and works perfectly.

That was my next idea to try out, but thanks anyway, I hope others will find it useful
The title in the doc I'm working on is centered, so equal indent on left and right did the trick.