Paragraph Style "Text Body"
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Now at last we can talk about the Text Body, the actual content, the real substance of any lengthy document. Like all other elements, the text body has its own specific paragraph style, appropriately named Text body, containing a whole plethora of settings (see illustration 14).
Illustration 14. Paragraph style "Text Body" for main text Like all other elements, the text body has its own specific paragraph style, appropriately named “Text body”.
By default Text body allows for a Spacing below paragraph of 0,21mm, which is exactly 6pt – which in turn is exactly half the hight of a standard 12pt font. This very modest spacing is nevertheless enough to highlight the start of a new paragraph. It helps to lighten the overall impression.*
Other settings for your body text might well be Line spacing of 1.5 lines, Alignement justified and Text flow › Hyphenation › Automatically. Automatic hyphenation is important in order to avoid large gaps in case a long word doesn’t fit at the end of the line and gets moved to the next line so that the remaining words sprawl right up to the right margin. Two rather enigmatic concepts are those of Orphan control and Widow control. The former stands for the minimum number of lines a paragraph at the bottom of a page must contain if it is not to move in to the following page. The latter stands conversely for the minimum number of lines a paragraph appearing at the very top of a page must contain below which it will “pull” lines from the previous page.
Paragraph Styles can be arranged hierarchically, the one inheriting its settings from the other and thus building a kind of dependency tree, though dependencies can be broken at any point, allowing for full flexibility.
