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can also check Standard Ligatures and Discretionary Ligatures in the OpenType
area of the Character Attributes dialog box.
Ligature preferences
You can set preferences for ligatures in the Character pane of the Preferences dialog
box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Print Layout > Character):
Break Above: The value in the field specifies a tracking or kerning value above which
ligatures will break apart. At the default value of 1, if you track text +1 (1/200th of an
em space), the ligatures revert to standard letters.
Not "ffi" or "ffl": Check this box to prevent fi and fl ligatures in words such as "office"
or "waffle" when ffi and ffl ligatures do not exist in the current font.
Working with the Glyphs palette
A glyph is the smallest unit of a font each uppercase letter, for example, consists of
its own glyph. To access all the glyphs in a font especially an OpenType font that
may include tens of thousands of glyphs you need to view a complete character
map. You can access such a character map in the Glyphs palette (Window menu),
which enables you to view all the glyphs in the selected font, view bold or italic glyphs,
double-click a glyph to insert that glyph in text, and save favorite glyphs for easy
access.
The Glyphs palette makes it easy to work with large character sets and professional-quality
fonts.
To view the glyphs in a font, display the Glyphs palette (Window menu) and choose
a font from the Font menu in the upper-left corner. Options available in the Glyphs
palette include the following:
You can use the Bold and Italic buttons to display the bold and italic versions of
glyphs; if the bold, italic, or bold italic instance of the font is not active on your system,
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