Hi,
When in a paragraph, I apply a soft return (shift+return) to force a line break, and that the paragraph's alignment is set to justify, InDesign fully justifies the line where the forced line break is inserted. The behaviour I would expect (that I'm looking for) is for InDesign to simply break the line at that point on the line without further justifying...almost as if it was the end of the paragraph. (If I left aligned instead of justified with last line aligned left the paragraph, it would be fine)
The reason I would like such behaviour is to have a new line within the same paragraph, but without the space before or space after of that paragraph. I guess I could accomplish this by creating several paragraph styles to be used in the same paragraph, as follows:
1- paragraph style P1: paragraph style with space before and space after (to be applied whenere there is no soft return within the paragraph)
2- top paragraph style: the paragraph style P1 with the space before and zero space after
3- middle paragraph style: the same paragraph style P1 with zero space before and zero space after
4- bottom paragraph style: the same paragraph style P1 with the space after and zero space before
Obviously, this adds a lot of complexity to a single paragraph and is also difficult to keep trakc of in case changes are to be made to the paragraph later (e.g. removing the soft return would imply re-applying paragraph styles to other parts of the paragraph again). For instance, if there is only one soft return in the paragraph, I would apply #2 to the part before the line break and #4 to the part after the line break. But if there are two soft returns in the paragraph, I would apply #2 to part before 1st line break, #3 to part after 1st line break and before 2nd line break, #4 to part after 2nd line break!
I have come across threads here reporting this issue but am not clear on what the best (better) workarounds are.
This is for CS4. Thanks.