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SUPERIOR (AREA)
QuarkXPress Server Þ Preferences Þ Character pane
Use the Superior area to control the scale of superior characters.
• In the VScale field, enter the vertical size of the character. This value is measured
as a percentage of font size. The default value is 50%.
• In the
HScale field, enter the width of the character. This value is measured as
a percentage of the normal character width (as specified by the font designer).
The default value is 50%.
RANGE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM SMALLEST INCREMENT
0% to 100% percent .1
LIGATURES (AREA) — MAC OS ONLY
QuarkXPress Server Þ Preferences Þ Character pane
Use the Ligatures area to use ligatures built in to a font. A ligature is a typo-
graphic convention in which certain characters are combined into a single
character. Most fonts designed for the Mac OS contain ligatures for the character
“f” followed by the character “i,” and “f” followed by the the character “l.”
• Check Ligatures to combine all instances of “f” followed by “i” and “f” followed
by “l” into ligatures. You can edit and check the spelling of words that contain
ligatures as if the ligatures were separate characters. Ligatures is unchecked
by default.
When you check
Ligatures, the Break Above field is enabled. In the Break
Above
field, enter the kerning or tracking value (measured in 1/200 em space
increments) above which characters are not combined into ligatures. For
example, a headline with a large tracking value would probably not contain
ligatures. The default value is 1.
RANGE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM SMALLEST INCREMENT
0 to 10 .005 (
1
⁄200) em space .001
• Check
Not “ffi” or “ffl” to prevent the last two letters in “ffi” and “ffl” (as in
“office” and “waffle”) from being combined into ligatures. Three-character
ligatures for these combinations, common in traditional typesetting systems,
are not standardized in fonts designed for Mac OS; therefore, some typogra-
phers prefer to keep all three letters separate rather than combine only two of
them. This option is unchecked by default.
AUTO KERN ABOVE (CHECK BOX AND FIELD)
QuarkXPress Server Þ Preferences Þ Character pane
Check Auto Kern Above to use kerning tables, which are built in to most fonts,
to control inter-character spacing.
SERVER PREFERENCES
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