Paragraph style properties

 

Alignment	Left, right, center or full alignment for the selected paragraph.
Line spacing	Line spacing value. Note: The effect of this value depends on the Linespacing mode option.
Line s pacing mode	Relative – Sets the line spacing relative to the line spacing defined by the font. For example, if the line spacing defined for the font is 12 points, and you specify Linespacing 2, the line spacing will be 24 points. Multiple – Sets the line spacing defined by the font rounded up to multiple of value specified for the Linespacing property. For example, if the line spacing defined for the font is 12 points, and you specify Linespacing 8 points, the line spacing will be 16 points because that is the nearest multiple of 8. This can be useful to get a better control of the line spacing e.g. if you use zebra patterned paper. Value – Sets the line spacing to the value in points specified in Linespacing property. At least – Sets the line spacing to a minimum value that is needed to fit the largest font or graphic on the line. If the value you specify for Linespacing is higher than that minimum value, that value you specify is used.
Indentation - first	Controls the horizontal starting position of the first line of a paragraph, relative to the Indentation - left value.
Indentation - left	Controls the starting position of the subsequent lines of a paragraph, relative to the left text area inner margin. This also serves as a tab stop position. For example, used for bullets and numbering.
Indentation - right	Controls the ending position of the lines of a paragraph, relative to the right text area inner margin.
Tab - default indentation	The default horizontal shift of text cursor when pressing the TAB button. This is used if no indents are specified on the ruler beyond the current text cursor position.
Spacing before	The vertical spacing before the paragraph.
Spacing after	The vertical spacing after the paragraph. Note: The spacing after a paragraph and the spacing before next paragraph overlap. The resulting space is the maximum value of the two values. If needed, the spacing after paragraph is reduced to fit the paragraph inside the text area.
List level	The level of the paragraph. This can be used when you have a numbered list and you want one or more paragraphs under the top level. For example: A. Body text 1. Level 1 2. Level 1 2.1. Level 2 2.2. Level 2 B. Body text 2.2.1 Level 3 2.2.2. Level 3 C. Body text 3. Level 1 4. Level 1 Note: The numbering of body text level is separate from the other levels.
Bullets and numbering properties
Bullets and numbering	Click in the field and the browse button to open the Bullets and numbering dialog, see Bullets and numbering dialog
Numbering id	An index that is used for a set of numbered paragraphs. This is by default n for all numbered paragraphs in a Story or text object. If you want to start numbering from the beginning in a subsequent set of numbered paragraphs within the Story or text object, you must either: • Set a unique numbering id on these paragraphs. • Set the Start at value to 0 on the first paragraph in the new set of paragraphs.
Start at	Sets a numbered paragraph to the specified value. Subsequent paragraphs are incremented from this value. By default no value is specified. The number on the paragraph is increment from the previous paragraph within the set of paragraphs with the same numbering id.
Text	Numbering The default value for numbering is %n!1.\t where %n – body level numbering !1. – decimal numbers followed by a dot \t – the tab character which gives a tab stop where the tab is the sum of: • All defined tab positions. • The left indent. • The default tab according to the Tab - default indentation property. See Paragraph style properties. You can remove the tab character or change the dot to some other character. You can also use outlined numbering by specifying %N as a prefix instead of %n, where N is the level for the selected paragraph. If you want numbering other than decimal numbers or standard bullets, you can specify one of the following formats instead of !1: !r – small roman numbers !R – big roman numbers !a – small alphabetic letters !A – capital alphabetic letters If you specify no format, !1 is used, that is without the dot included in the default numbering value. Bullets For a set of predefined bullet types, you can use the Bullets toolbar button. The default value for bullets is ·\t where · – the fat middle dot character in the Windows Symbol font. (Character code 0xB7). \t – the tab character which gives a default tab stop according to the Tab - default indentation property. See Paragraph style properties. You can remove the tab character or change the middle dot to some other character by for example copying it from the Windows character map.
Font (Bullets & numbering)	The bullet / number font. Note: If you do not specify any Font, Baseline shift, Color, or Highlight color properties, the bullet /number will have the same properties as the first character of the corresponding paragraph text. See Fonts.
Baseline shift (Bullets & numbering)	The vertical shift of the bullet or number. You can enter a value followed by an optional unit, for example mm. The value is transformed to the default unit setting for Measurements, see Options dialog. Note: By default, the bottom of inline objects are aligned with the baseline.
Color (Bullets & numbering)	See Text properties.
Highlight color (Bullets and numbering)	See Text properties.
Start position	Controls where to start the paragraph relative to the previous paragraph. Where it fits – Follows immediately after the previous paragraph. In next Story frame – Starts in beginning of the next Story frame related to the story. If the paragraph is the first in the Story, the paragraph will start in the first Story frame related to the Story.
Keep lines together	None – No lines are kept together within the paragraph, i.e. a single line of a paragraph can be rendered at the top or bottom of a Story frame Widows/Orphans – Sets the Keep start lines together option to 2 (Widows) and the Keep end lines together option to 2 (Orphans). All – Sets the Keep start lines together and Keep last lines together to All lines which means that the whole paragraph is rendered within a Story frame. Note: You can set the default behavior for Keep lines together in the Tools > Options dialog, in the Defaults > Paragraph settings. Note: If the value you specify for keeping lines together within the paragraph, together with the value you specify for keeping with lines in next paragraph, results in that the paragraph(s) do not fit within the Story frame, the settings are ignored and this option as considered specified as None. You can override this behavior by switching off the Emergency mode. See Text properties.
Keep start lines together	Controls the minimum number of lines that will be kept together in the beginning of a paragraph. For example by specifying 3, at least three lines of the beginning of the paragraph will be kept together within a Story frame.
Keep end lines together	Controls the minimum number of lines that will be kept together in the end of a paragraph. For example by specifying 3, at least three lines of the end of the paragraph will be kept together within a Story frame.
Keep with next	Controls the minimum number of lines of following paragraph that will be kept together with the current paragraph. For example you may want to avoid that a heading is rendered at the bottom of a Story frame with no text below it. Note: If the value you specify for keeping with lines in next paragraph, together with the value you specify for keeping lines together within the paragraph, results in that the paragraph(s) do not fit within the Story frame, the settings are ignored and this option is considered as set to 0 lines. You can override this behavior by switching off the Emergency mode. See Text properties. This setting is also ignored if the following paragraph is specified to start in the next Story frame.
Line breaking mode - Row stretch	Specifies the maximum stretch of the line before a line break occurs. Default is 72 pts. It can be useful to reduce this value if you e.g. want to enforce hyphenation to occur more often Note: You can set the default behavior for this option in the Tools > Options dialog, in the Defaults > Paragraph settings.
Text wrapping	The MS Word option is a formatting mode that tries to mimic the line wrapping and line spacing as to how it is done in Microsoft Word. This is normally useful for RTF filtered input, for which the property is set to MS Word by default. For all other content you must set it explicitly here.
Direction	Specifies the direction of the selected paragraph.
BiDi and Shaping	None – Use for languages not requiring bi-directional text or shaping. Simple – Enables bi-directional text within the same paragraph and shaping of Arabic glyphs. Complex – Enables bi-directional text within the same paragraph and shaping of Arabic and Indic glyphs. Note: Selecting Simple or Complex can affect formatting speed. Note: You can set the default behavior for this option in the Tools > Options dialog, in the Defaults > Paragraph settings.
Tabs	A string specifying the tabs definition for the paragraph. Click browse to open the Tabs dialog, or edit this property directly in the Properties panel.