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You must have paragraph text selected with the Text tool to work with columns: the tabs do not show on the rulers using other tools.. Select the frame in which you want to place columns,

7. Optionally, if your symbol is crowding into the list text, increase the Bullet To Text spacing Similarly, the paragraph text frame might be too tight to the left of the bullet; in this case, you increase the Text Frame To Bullet amount See the following illustration for the completed design

Working with Columns

Although you can manually create flowing columns of paragraph text, it’s often less time-consuming to use the automated Columns feature in CorelDRAW Text columns divide

paragraph text frames into several vertical columns separated by gutters (margins) Multiple

columns can be created only in the Text | Columns dialog This section describes how to manipulate columns with the mouse You must have paragraph text selected with the Text tool to work with columns: the tabs do not show on the rulers using other tools

Select the frame in which you want to place columns, choose Text | Columns, and then set the Number Of Columns on the Column Settings dialog It is always a good idea to keep

the number of columns balanced, so each column is neither too wide nor too narrow.

A good rule of thumb for legibility is: each line of text should be no wider than 6 inches or

16 words, but it should be wide enough to have at least 4 words per line

To change the width of the columns and margins, drag the column guides,

column-boundary markers, gutter handles, and horizontal-resize handles, as shown in Figure 12-8

When dragging the column guides or boundary markers, if the Equal Column Width option

is selected in the Column Settings dialog, all the gutters will be resized together; the gutter

handles are available only when this option is not selected

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FIGURE 12-8 Column widths can be edited directly by dragging with the mouse

Drag column guides to

resize columns and gutters.

Drag gutter handles to move gutters.

Drag resize handle to adjust width of all columns and gutters.

Columns can be applied only to whole paragraph text frames and cannot be applied

to individual paragraphs or artistic text.

Column Settings

Once you’ve created a paragraph text object with columns, you can refine and make precise columns and gutter widths through the Column Settings dialog (Text | Columns), shown in Figure 12-9

To add extra columns, first set the Number Of Columns, and then set the Widths of the columns The Gutter value is the distance between the selected column and the next one If Equal Column Width is selected, changing the width of any column or gutter changes the

FIGURE 12-9 Use the Column Settings dialog to apply columns to paragraph text

width of all columns or gutters to the same value If Maintain Current Frame Width is

selected, changing the width of any column or gutter will not change the overall width of

the frame, so the other columns and gutters will be resized to accommodate the change A

preview of the column settings is shown in the preview frame on the right side of the dialog

Text in columns (even if only one column is used) can be justified via the Text toolbar

and the Paragraph Formatting box

You can have more control over columns by laying them out as multiple text frames,

each one containing a single column.

Formatting Paragraph Text

Stepping inside the frame and column formatting of paragraph text, CorelDRAW has

extensive options for specifying how lines of text look compared with one another, how

tightly characters and words are spaced, and how you want individual paragraphs to separate

from each other The following sections cover the use of the Paragraph Formatting box

Paragraph Alignment

The Alignment settings on the Paragraph Formatting box affect the spacing for the entire

selected paragraph; you can choose the entire paragraph text object using the Pick tool, or

choose only pages by highlighting them with the Text tool Horizontal and Vertical

Alignment at the top of this box pertain to the orientation of the language set of the font

used; American and European users will want to use Horizontal Alignment

Spacing

Below Alignment on the Paragraph Formatting box are controls for inter-line spacing

(leading), for how much space should go before or after a paragraph, for inter-character and

inter-word spacing, and finally for indent preferences Note that proper typographical form

dictates that separate paragraphs are usually indicated by either a first-line indent or a line

space between paragraphs, but not both

Paragraph and Line Spacing

Depending on your layout, you might choose to separate paragraphs by using the Before

Paragraph or the After Paragraph spin boxes, but not both The spacing between paragraphs

is measured by default as the “% Of Char Height” (percent of the character height), the total

height of a character in a digital font, which is not always easy to discern; typically it’s about

30 percent taller than a capital letter in the font If this proves to be too time-consuming to

calculate, you can always choose Points or “% Of Pt Size” (percentage of point size) from

the drop-down list In the following illustration, 200% of the character height is chosen to

separate paragraphs This is an option you want to experiment with, depending on the

typeface you’re using Anywhere from 125% to 200% can work from an artistic standpoint

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Line spacing is used to let some “air” into paragraph text and is especially useful when you have a font whose ascenders or descenders are unusually tall You can also use very wide Line spacing to create an artistic effect when starting, for example, a magazine article It’s been fashionable in layout for several years now to put about 300% Line spacing in the opening paragraph: it lightens the page when using a bold font and also allows the reader to see more of any decorative background

Language, Character, and Word Spacing

If you’re typesetting, for example, an article using an Asian font, Language spacing will be useful to space non-left-to-right sentences; if not, you have very little use for this option You can set how much extra space is added to the default inter-character space for the paragraph as a whole by using the Character spacing The values are a percentage of a normal space character for the current font You can also modify the inter-word spacing— this has the effect of adjusting the width of the space character The following illustration shows some adjusted text at right (highlighted), and you can compare the effect to the default paragraph text at left

Remember the control handles on the bounding boxes of paragraph text They

offer less precision when setting character and line spacing than the Paragraph

Formatting box, but they’re quick to use and provide a good coarse view of how

your layout is shaping up.

Indentation and Margins of Paragraph Text

You can set the sizes of the indents of the left and right margins, as well as the size of the

first-line indentation, just as you do in a word processor These can be set precisely from the

Paragraph Formatting box, or you can set them with a little less precision using the

triangular markers on the ruler, which are shown here:

Formatting Tabs

Tab stops for paragraph text can be edited either directly in the ruler or in the Text | Tab

Settings dialog, as shown in Figure 12-10 CorelDRAW supports left, right, center, and

decimal tabs, just like most word processors do

Adding, Moving, and Deleting Tabs from the Dialog

Tabs can be added to the current paragraph in the Text | Tab Settings box by first entering a

value in the Tab Location spin box, and then by clicking Add To set the type of the new tab,

choose from the drop-down list associated with the tab Similarly, you can adjust an existing

tab by clicking its position (thus opening the value for editing) and then typing in a new

value To delete a tab, select it in the list, and then click the Remove button

When you create a new paragraph, unless you have modified the default paragraph style,

tab stops are positioned every half-inch To remove all the tabs, click the Remove All button.

Formatting Tab Leaders from the Dialog

You can choose whether text positioned to any tab has a leader between the tab settings from

the Leader Settings box reached by clicking the Leader Options button in Tab Settings

Leading characters are often used in tabulated lists such as tables of contents and menus to

join the section titles or menu items on the left with their respective page numbers or prices

on the right

Leaders are usually displayed as a series of dots, but they can be changed to any of the

characters shown in the Character drop-down list (unfortunately, you can’t make a leader

using a font other than the one used in the paragraph text) To change the leader character,

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Left indent marker First-line indent marker Right indent marker

Handle for moving both left-hand indent markers together.

select a Character from the drop-down list The distance between the leader characters is set with the Spacing setting: this value is the number of space characters to insert between each leader character A preview of the leaders appears in the Preview box

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FIGURE 12-10 Edit tab stops by using the Text | Tabs settings

Leader Options

Alignment Add tab

Delete tab

Delete all tabs

Using the Ruler to Set Tabs

To edit tab stops on the ruler, the ruler must be visible (choose View | Rulers), you use the

Text tool in selecting the paragraph text, and you click to set or edit the tab stops To view

tab characters in the body of your paragraph text, pressCTRL+SHIFT+C(Text | Show

Non-Printing Characters)

Before creating new tabs, you should delete all the tabs that are already in place—

select Remove All from the Tab Settings dialog.

To create new tabs with the ruler, use the Text tool to select the paragraphs to which you want

to add tabs, and then click on the horizontal ruler where you want to add the new tab stop The

type of the tab can be set by right-clicking over the tab There is also a selector button where the

ruler origin usually is when working with paragraph text Clicking the selector button cycles

between the four tab states: left–right–center–decimal See Figure 12-11

To move a tab, drag it to its new position on the ruler To delete a tab, drag it off the ruler

and into the workspace To change the type of a tab, delete it and create a new one of the

correct type, right-click it in the ruler, and select a new type from the pop-up menu, or

change its type in the Tab Settings dialog Tabs cannot be added to artistic text

Here’s a practical example of the value in knowing how to set up tabs: create a folding

menu design, and then create paragraph text with menu items and their corresponding prices

on the same lines (make up anything you like; have fun here!) Here’s how to create a dot

leader so the guests can see the prices at far right easily, based on the menu items at far left

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FIGURE 12-11 Tab stops can be edited directly on the horizontal ruler when editing

Left tab

Right tab Center tab Decimal tab

Picking Up the Tab

1. With the Text tool cursor inserted in the body of the text, choose Text | Tabs

2. Create a tab at the end of the line, just short of the end of the paragraph frame; give

it the Right tab property

3. Unfortunately, you can’t have a decimal leader and a regular text leader on the same line of text, but this, for the most part, is okay With most typefaces the decimal in the price column will line up fairly evenly with a leader tab in place on lines Click Leader Options

4. Choose a period as the character, or if you want something fancier, you might try a

single right-pointing angle quote (“›”;ALT+155) if your font supports this character

5. Set the Spacing for the leader character Notice that your document updates live, so you can preview how your dot leader looks before clicking OK

6. Click OK and the menu will certainly look more appetizing after applying your

newfound typographer’s skills

Wrapping Text Around Other Shapes

You can apply text wrapping to shapes in CorelDRAW so that any paragraph text placed

close to the shape will flow around the object instead of over or under it, as shown in the

examples in Figure 12-12

Several types of wrapping are available

object

the object with the wrap (its bounding box).

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