Comments on: Tab Leaders (Part 5): Fixed-Width Floating Tabs/Spacers http://indesignsecrets.com/tab-leaders-part-5-fixed-width-floating-tabsspacers.php InDesignSecrets Blog and Podcast Thu, 24 May 2012 17:46:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Melina http://indesignsecrets.com/tab-leaders-part-5-fixed-width-floating-tabsspacers.php/comment-page-1#comment-445328 Melina Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:55:22 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/tab-leaders-part-5-fixed-width-floating-tabsspacers.php#comment-445328 Thank you for this tutorial, it's just the solution I needed! Thank you for this tutorial, it’s just the solution I needed!

]]> By: Eugene http://indesignsecrets.com/tab-leaders-part-5-fixed-width-floating-tabsspacers.php/comment-page-1#comment-128506 Eugene Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:42:05 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/tab-leaders-part-5-fixed-width-floating-tabsspacers.php#comment-128506 I know you're talking about doing this with tabs and all that, or something simialr. I'm not knocking anyone or anything, or saying it's a bad way of doing it. I actually like it, I think it works well and it's a good idea. But I've been thinking, I know I know, dangerous. Anyways, would there be an advantage in just placing en space and adjusting the kerning, providing your maths is right you should be able to get a specified distance in mm/inches if you want to. It just seems to be that placing "spacers" in the text could be a bit tedious if you have a lot of it to do. Where if you place an en dash or some other white space, then you can search this space out and increase the kerning/tracking of it where needed. If you know your type size is 10pt, then an en space is 5pt which is approx. 1.7 mm, then adjust the tracking/kerning the same way to increase the spacing. With this you could have it as a character style or something. Or am I just rambling again? I know you’re talking about doing this with tabs and all that, or something simialr.

I’m not knocking anyone or anything, or saying it’s a bad way of doing it. I actually like it, I think it works well and it’s a good idea.

But I’ve been thinking, I know I know, dangerous.

Anyways, would there be an advantage in just placing en space and adjusting the kerning, providing your maths is right you should be able to get a specified distance in mm/inches if you want to.

It just seems to be that placing “spacers” in the text could be a bit tedious if you have a lot of it to do. Where if you place an en dash or some other white space, then you can search this space out and increase the kerning/tracking of it where needed.

If you know your type size is 10pt, then an en space is 5pt which is approx. 1.7 mm, then adjust the tracking/kerning the same way to increase the spacing.

With this you could have it as a character style or something.

Or am I just rambling again?

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