Adobe 12040118 - After Effects Standard, Tutorial

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Indent Left Margin Indents text from the left edge of the paragraph. For vertical text, this option controls the indentation from the top of the
paragraph.
Indent Right Margin Indents text from the right edge of the paragraph. For vertical text, this option controls the indentation from the bottom
of the paragraph.
Indent First Line Indents the first line of text in the paragraph. For horizontal text, the first line indent is relative to the left indent; for vertical
text, the first line indent is relative to the top indent. To create a first line hanging indentation, enter a negative value.
To change space above or below paragraphs, enter a value in the Paragraph panel for Space Before and Space After .
Hanging punctuation for Roman fonts
Hanging punctuation controls whether punctuation marks fall inside or outside the margins. If hanging punctuation is turned on for Roman fonts,
then periods, commas, single quotation marks, double quotation marks, apostrophes, hyphens, em dashes, en dashes, colons, and semicolons
appear outside the margins.
To enable or disable hanging punctuation for Roman fonts, choose Roman Hanging Punctuation from the Paragraph panel menu.
Note: You open the panel menu by clicking the panel menu button in the upper-right tab of the panel.
Note: When you use Roman Hanging Punctuation, any double-byte punctuation marks available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts in the
selected range do not appear outside the margins.
Text composition methods
The appearance of text on the page depends on a complex interaction of processes called text composition. Using the word spacing, letter
spacing, and glyph spacing options you’ve selected, After Effects evaluates possible line breaks and chooses the one that best supports the
specified parameters.
After Effects offers two composition methods, which you choose from the Paragraph panel menu.
Note: You open the panel menu by clicking the panel menu button in the upper-right tab of the panel.
Adobe Single-line Composer Offers a traditional approach to composing text one line at a time. This option is useful if you prefer to have manual
control over how lines break. If spacing must be adjusted, the Single-line Composer first tries to compress, rather than expand text.
Adobe Every-line Composer Considers a network of breakpoints for a range of lines and thus can optimize earlier lines in the paragraph to
eliminate especially unattractive breaks later on. Working with multiple lines of text results in more even spacing and fewer hyphens. The Every-
line Composer approaches composition by identifying possible breakpoints, evaluating them, and assigning a weighted penalty based on these
principles:
Highest importance is given to evenness of letter and word spacing. Possible breakpoints are evaluated and penalized according to how
much they deviate from optimal spacing.
After breakpoint penalty values are identified for a range of lines, they are squared, magnifying the bad breakpoints. The composer then uses
the good breakpoints.
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