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Working with grouped characters
Use the Group Characters dialog box (Style menu) to include a group of horizontal
characters, such as Roman characters, within a vertical line of text. Grouped characters
always display horizontally and do not break at the end of a line. To group selected
characters:
1
Choose Style > Group Characters.
2
Choose Vertical or Horizontal from the Scale drop-down menu and enter a percentage
in the field to the right of the Scale drop-down menu.
3
If you want to change the character spacing, enter a value in the Track/Sending
Amount field.
4
Click OK.
Aligning characters on a line
The Character Alignment feature gives you several options for aligning small
characters in a line of text to the largest character in a line of text. You can align
characters based on their baselines, their em boxes, or their ICF boxes.
Em boxes are the bounding boxes of characters. The ideographic character face (ICF) box
is a boundary inside the em box beyond which a glyph cannot extend. ICF boxes are
necessary to ensure that glyphs in an East Asian text flow do not touch each other.
The red area in the diagram below represents the boundaries of the em box. The yellow
area represents the ICF box.
Red represents the em box. Yellow represents the ICF box.
You can align smaller characters with the largest characters that appear in the same
line of text in one of following ways:
• Choose an option from the Style > Character Alignment submenu.
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