From the course: Designing a Book
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Adding running heads - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Book
Adding running heads
- [Instructor] Continuing to work on the parent pages, I'm now going to add the running header. I press Command + 2 to go to 200%. I am now going to press the Tab key. And on the left-hand pages, I just want the title of the book. Because it's in uppercase, I would like it to be spaced somewhat, so I will use positive tracking of 50. And I'm also going to switch to Optical, and that's just because optical kerning seems to work better with this font. I now need to position the book title in the center of the text frame. I am going to set the position of the tab stop. I'll press Command + Shift + T to put a tab ruler above the text frame. Alternatively, just choose Tabs from the Type menu. I'll choose the center justified tab, click on the top of the ruler, and then set the exposition. Now, I can do this by eye, just by moving it around, but I'm going to do it numerically. The width of the text frame is 312 after 312/2. I will create a paragraph style based upon this, which I will call…
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