Keeping a line fully justified

[chadwilliams]

Here's what I want to do: I want to break a fully-justified paragraph with a
page break (it's a long paragraph and I want the last four lines to go onto a
new page). When I do this, the last line (where I put the page break) is now
not fully-justified. Is there a way to get that last line (that has the page
break) fully-justified?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Chad,

Hit the left-arrow key twice so the insertion point is after the last
character of text on the first page, i.e. before the paragraph mark (key
Command-8 if the invisibles aren't visible and you need reassurance), then
key a hard line return / newline command, namely Shift-Return.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from North America and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Elliott Roper]

Hello Chad,

Hit the left-arrow key twice so the insertion point is after the last
character of text on the first page, i.e. before the paragraph mark (key
Command-8 if the invisibles aren't visible and you need reassurance), then
key a hard line return / newline command, namely Shift-Return.

To which excellent advice should be added:
Preferences » Compatibility » uncheck "Don't expand character spaces on
the line ending Shift-Return"

 

[chadwilliams]

It's still not fully-justifying the last line even though the "Don't expand
character spaces on the line ending Shift-Return" is UNchecked. What's weird
is that this used to do the trick! What else could be causing that last
line NOT to fully-justify?

(Just to refresh your mind: I have a long fully-justified paragraph and I
have to break it so the bottom 5 lines go onto a new page. So the bottom
line of the first page doesn't go all the way to the end as a fully-justified
line.)