User Guide

Chapter 10338

To specify baseline shift, do one of the following:

• In the Text Character inspector, enter a value in the Baseline Shift text box, and

press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).

• Hold down Control+Alt (Windows) or Control+Option (Macintosh) and press

the Up Arrow or Down Arrow key to raise or lower the baseline.

Note: To create footnotes and superscript special characters such as

and ™, select

baseline-shifted text and reduce the font size.

Spacing characters and words precisely

Using the Text Spacing inspector, you can precisely space words and characters.

You can scale text horizontally, adjust word or letter spacing, and keep speciﬁed

lines or words from separating.

• Scaling horizontally modiﬁes the character shapes but not the character

spacing or height; you can make the text wider or narrower without

changing the text’s height.

• Adjusting word spacing changes the amount of space between words to fall

within a speciﬁed range, measured as a percentage of standard spacing.

Adjusting word spacing does not affect letter spacing.

• Adjusting letter spacing changes the amount of space between letters to fall

within a speciﬁed range, measured as a percentage of standard spacing.

Adjusting letter spacing does not affect word spacing.

Note: You can also use Range Kerning to adjust the space between characters,

measured as a percentage of an em space in the current font. For more information, see

“Setting alignment, leading, range kerning, and baseline shift” on page 335.

• Keeping lines or words from separating allows you to prevent widow and

orphan lines—short lines on their own at the beginning or end of a column,

text block, or page–and prevent speciﬁed word groups from breaking apart at

line breaks.