Justified text spacing issues

[Josh H]

I tried to left justify my text to look cleaner, but there were some weird results. I have 3 words spaced very far apart on one line.  Any suggestions for fixing this? 

[GarryP]

That looks like you have used Justify All; try Justify Left instead.

[bbrother]

We can only speculate based on this screenshot since we don't know what paragraph settings you used. If you could share the APub file or at least a screenshot of your paragraph settings we would have a better idea of what's going on.

Back to your problem. I have no problems with left justification and strangely spaced three words. But maybe the way I set it up is different than yours. That's why a photo of your settings would be useful.

I am attaching a video of the screen capture where you can see my settings and a sample file so you can compare. I hope they will be helpful.

Edit: previously attached wrong video now it it is the correct one.

 

 

 

 

Left_justify_sample.afpub

[walt.farrell]

That could be because you used Justify All rather than Justify Left. Or it could be because you have a Line Break after those 3 words, rather than a Paragraph Break. We would need a sample document, or a screenshot with Text > Show Special Characters active. Also, it helps to have screenshots that include the complete application window.

[thomaso]

9 hours ago, Josh H said:

I have 3 words spaced very far apart on one line.  Any suggestions for fixing this? 

It depends on your preferred alternative. With "Justified left" you have the "Justification" options, separated for words and characters.

Also “Hyphenation” can be an option, either as a paragraph style setting – or individually with a manually entered “Soft Hyphen” (menu Text > Insert > Hyphens) which works conditionally and automatically disappears when the text flow changes if the hypenation is not needed).

[Josh H]

@bbrother Is this better? 

[Ramon56]

Josh, I suspect that you have selected "Justify All" instead of "Justify Left".

Cheers.

[walt.farrell]

24 minutes ago, Ramon56 said:

I suspect that you have selected "Justify All" instead of "Justify Left".

The latest screenshots show Justify Left is active.

We still need to see one with Text > Show Special Characters active.

[Old Bruce]

Could be that the table is pasted in after the words "Drive folder." I doubt it though.

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But I am going to bet on Walt being correct with the Line Break instead of a New Paragraph.

[thomaso]

51 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

The latest screenshots show Justify Left is active.

In my impression this refers to the first selected paragraph.

[walt.farrell]

Good thought, @thomaso. That could also explain it.

[bbrother]

2 hours ago, Josh H said:

bbrother Is this better? 

They are better than the first one, but still didn't give us the information we needed.
It would be good if you activated "Text > Show Special Characters" as Walt mentioned.

It is difficult to tell from the photos whether the tables are pasted into text frames or whether text wrapping is used. Because some look pasted and some don't.
There could be several reasons why this is happening including a bug but basing only on screenshots we can't give u a definitive solution just hints.

 

5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Or it could be because you have a Line Break after those 3 words, rather than a Paragraph Break.

This also could be the case. See picture bellow.

 

[Josh H]

Hey, everyone! For some reason, I stopped receiving notifications of your advice and forgot about this thread until I opened my document again. I look at some of the options you all have suggested! 

Handbook.afpub

[Josh H]

On 12/16/2023 at 11:26 AM, bbrother said:

They are better than the first one, but still didn't give us the information we needed.
It would be good if you activated "Text > Show Special Characters" as Walt mentioned.

It is difficult to tell from the photos whether the tables are pasted into text frames or whether text wrapping is used. Because some look pasted and some don't.
There could be several reasons why this is happening including a bug but basing only on screenshots we can't give u a definitive solution just hints.

 

This also could be the case. See picture bellow.

 

I took away the line breaks and it fixed the issue! Could you explain why that was messing up the formatting? 

[MikeTO]

A line break tells Publisher that the paragraph continues on the next line and with Justified Left on Publisher has no choice but to justify that line of text because only the last line in the paragraph, the line after the line break, will not be justified.

[bbrother]

7 hours ago, Josh H said:

I took away the line breaks and it fixed the issue! Could you explain why that was messing up the formatting? 

@Josh H It is very simple to understand.

When you insert a line break, you basically tell the application that you want to break the text of a paragraph and continue on the next line.
When the application sees a line break, it automatically assumes that the text will be continued in the next line and that the current line is not the last one, and justifies it according to the justification type selected by the user.

The main difference between justification types is how they treat the last line of text.
The justify icons themselves tell you what happens to the last line when this operation is performed:

• (A) justify left, the last line is excluded from justification,
• (B) justify center, the last line will be justified to the center,
• (C) justify right, the last line is excluded from justification,
• (D) justify all, all lines will be justified including the last line.