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Poem

Fill the whole spread

Style

A style is a named set of settings. Pages using it all change when the style is updated; a page can still have its own tweaks on top.

Layout

Mode

Line breaks

Lines

Break care

Stanza space

Max sideways

Min stretch ↕

Max stretch ↕

Fold gap (mm)

Split at fold

Leftover space

Stack settings — every line full width (short poems)

Not used on this page: it's laid out in Fill mode.

Line gap (mm)

Aim for stretch

Line spacing

Fill settings — one size, justified (longer poems)

Not used on this page: it's laid out in Stack mode.

Leading

Justify

Size ↔ shape

Type

Font

Added fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF) stay in this browser; click one to use it on this page. Fonts installed on this Mac can also just be typed in the Font field by name, e.g. Helvetica Neue.

Weight

Italic

Case

Optical tracking

Tracking (em)

Width variants

Other widths of the typeface a line may use instead of stretched letters — e.g. a Condensed and an Extended cut, or a variable font's width range. Condensed/Extended files added above are recognised by their names; click one in the font list to add it here.

White on black

Document

Trim (mm)

Bleed (mm)

Margins (mm)

topinside bottomoutside

Inside is towards the fold, outside towards the edge — mirrored on left and right pages. A spread uses the outside margin at both ends.

Page numbers

Text

Where

Size (pt)

Not on page 1

"{n}" is the page number — e.g. SIMPLE STUPID GOOD · {n}. Set in the page's font, regular weight, inside the margin, so it never changes how the poem fits.

Pages

Split on "..."

Poems are separated by a line with only "…". Tick to also start a new page at "..." lines. Changing this re-reads the text; pages keep their settings by position.

PDF: the print dialog opens — choose Save as PDF, margins None, scale 100%. Pages include the bleed; in InDesign place them at −bleed on each page. Fonts added here stay in this browser.