Add word kerning / spacing between words in Publisher

[Afficinado]

Currently it is not possible to adjust the word kerning on a line per line basis. It is only possible to apply it on a whole paragraph by selecting a justified text block and adjusting the settings in the paragraph section of the style panel. This task is common in editorial design work, when you want fine control on a text block.
InDesign supports this kind of control.

Keep up the good work!

[Old Bruce]

Try using the Character Panel once you have selected the line instead of the Text Style panel. There is Kerning and Tracking which is more suited to adjusting the spacing for a line or a word. Kerning is only useful for pairs of glyphs.

[Afficinado]

As far as my typographic understanding goes, kerning is the individual spacing between glyph pairs and tracking is the general spacing between letters of a word. I really only want to adjust the spacing between words. Of course, if you really want to, you can go into each space between words and adjust their width - but this is not a really good way of doing it.
InDesign has a separate feature for this kind of fine-grained adjustment.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Afficinado