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3 minutes ago, dave4224 said:

Hi, I've been looking for a way to set the default letter spacing on highlighted paras. Alt/arrow tracks in lumps of ten, I can't find any preference feature to set that to five? I know I can adjust manually, but...

Your topic title talks about tracking (basically, letter spacing, I think) and you mention letter spacing, but then you talk about "Alt/arrow".

Alt/arrow is, I think, used only for kerning (space between two specific letters), not tracking.

To adjust the letter spacing generally for your paragraph you would want to use tracking. Highlight the paragraph, then in the Character panel set the Tracking field to the value that works for you.

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-- Walt
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You can also use alt-arrow to track whole paras when they're highlighted - the default is to track by 10. InDesign has an option in programme-wide preferences to change the tracking/kerning, I'm wondering if APub has a similar option somewhere?

I'm being niggly, it's just something I'd like to change!

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4 minutes ago, dave4224 said:

You can also use alt-arrow to track whole paras when they're highlighted - the default is to track by 10. InDesign has an option in programme-wide preferences to change the tracking/kerning, I'm wondering if APub has a similar option somewhere?

I'm being niggly, it's just something I'd like to change!

Thanks. I hadn't discovered that. Looks like you're right that it's 10% increments ror Alt + right-arrow (or 50% if you use Alt+Shift + right-arrow).

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7

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