6.2. Flow Layout

The flow body layout arranges the body cells in a line until a maximum width is exceeded. At that point, they wrap to the next line. The layout is useful for bullet-separated collections of names and everything else that doesn’t fit into a fixed grid, like logos with varying aspect ratios.

Flow Direction

By default, cells flow from left to right, but that can be changed to right-to-left.

Justify Lines

This setting controls whether the cells in each line should be justified left or right, centered, or fully justified. In the latter case, the last line’s justification can be controlled separately.

Square Cells

This setting forces all cells to be square and also have the same size, which can sometimes be useful for logos.

Force Cell Width/Height

These settings force all cells to have a certain, manually specified width or height.

Match Cell Width/Height

These settings force cells to have the same width respectively height. The first option only affects cells inside the same block. The second option affects cells across all blocks with the same content style. This can be further broadened to include other content styles.

To break the enforcement at some point, use the @Break Match column in the Credits spreadsheet.

Justify Cells

This setting controls whether content should be justified left/center/right and top/middle/bottom inside the cells. It also applies to the separator text. The settings are of course only effective when the cells are actually larger than the content, which is not always the case.

Line Width

When the cells in a line exceeds this width, it is wrapped automatically. Red layout guides indicate the configured width.

Line/Horizontal Gap

This amount of blank pixels is inserted vertically between lines respectively horizontally between cells.

Separator

This text is placed horizontally in between cells. It doesn’t contribute to the cell spacing. By default, it uses the Body Letter Style, but that can be changed.

Vertically Justify Separator

This setting controls whether the separator text should be justified top/middle/bottom in the line, or aligned with the cells’ baseline.