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THE QUARKXPRESS SERVER USER INTERFACE
26 | A Guide to QuarkXPress Server 2017
prevent the second two letters in “ffi” and “ffl” (as in office and waffle) from being
combined into ligatures, check Not “ffi” or “ffl”. Three-character ligatures for these
combinations, common in traditional typesetting systems, are not standardized in
fonts designed for Mac OS, so some typographers prefer to keep all three letters
separate rather than combine only two of them. Note that many PostScript fonts do
not have “ffi” and “ffl” ligatures, but most OpenType fonts do. This option is
unchecked by default.
Check Auto Kern to specify that the application should use kerning tables, which
are built into most fonts, to control intercharacter spacing. The Auto Kern Above
field enables you to specify the point size above which automatic kerning must be
used. The Auto Kern Above feature also implements custom tracking information
specified in the Tracking Values dialog box for a selected font (Utilities > Edit
Tracking) in QuarkXPress. This option is checked by default, with a 4-point
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hreshold (range = 0 to 72 pt, measurement system = various [“, pt, cm, etc.],
smallest increment = .001).
Check Standard Em Space to specify an em-space equivalent to the point size of
the text (for example, 24pt text has a 24pt em space). If Standard Em Space is
unchecked, the application uses the width of the two zeros in the current font as
the em-space width. This option is checked by default. You can insert an em space
in text by pressing Option+space/Ctrl+Shift+6.
Use the Flex Space Width field to change the 50% default width of a flexible space.
To create a breaking flexible space, press Option+Shift+space/Ctrl+Shift+5; to create
a nonbreaking flexible space, press
Command+Option+Shift+space/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5. The Flex Space Width value is
expressed as a percentage of the normal en space for a given font and font size
(range = 0 to 400%, measurement system = percentage, smallest increment = .1).
Use the Accents for All Caps check box to specify whether to include accent marks
on accented characters with the All Caps type style applied. This option is checked
by default.
Use the Space between CJK & R field to indicate how much space should be
included by default between a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character and an
adjacent Roman character.
Preferences — Trapping
The Trapping pane (Administration > Preferences > Renderer > Trapping)
includes the following controls.
Select a Trapping Method:
Click Absolute to trap using the values in the Auto Amount and Indeterminate
fields according to the object and background colors involved. If the object color
is darker, the object is choked by the background using the Auto Amount value.
If the object color is lighter, the object is spread into the background using the
Auto Amount value.
Click Proportional to trap using the value in the Auto Amount field multiplied
by the difference between the luminance (lightness or brightness) of the object
color and the background color.