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Color: Lets you change the color of selected text.
Shade: Lets you set the tint of an applied color.
Opacity: Lets you control the transparency of selected text.
Horizontal/Vertical Scale (Windows only): Lets you stretch selected text
horizontally or vertically.
Kern (Windows only) : Lets you add or remove all manual kerning applied between
characters, or remove kerning from a kerning pair.
Story Direction: Lets you specify horizontal or vertical story direction for the
selected text box.
This feature is considered an East Asian feature and is only available when you
have the East Asian preference enabled (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > East
Asian).
Rubi: Lets you control rubi characters applied to text.
This feature is considered an East Asian feature and is only available when you
have the East Asian preference enabled (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > East
Asian).
Group Characters: Lets you place horizontal text in a vertical story.
This feature is considered an East Asian feature and is only available when you
have the East Asian preference enabled (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > East
Asian).
Baseline Shift (Windows only): Lets you move selected text up or down in relation
to the baseline without changing line spacing.
Character (Windows only): Displays the Character Attributes dialog box, which
lets you control every aspect of character formatting for selected text.
Alignment: Lets you align active paragraphs to the left, right, or center. Also lets
you justify or force-justify selected paragraphs.
Leading (Windows only): Lets you change the line spacing of selected paragraphs.
Character Alignment: Lets you align active characters to the top, center, baseline,
or bottom.
In East Asian configuration, the options are: ICF Box Top, ICF Box Bottom,
Embox Top, Embox Center, Embox Bottom and Roman Baseline . These let
you align the small characters in a line to the ICF specified by the large characters.
In vertical text frames, ICF Top/Right aligns the text to the right of the ICF, and
ICF Bottom/Left aligns the text to the left of the ICF.
Formats (Windows only): Displays the Paragraph Attributes dialog box, which
lets you control every aspect of paragraph formatting for selected text.
Tabs (Windows only): Lets you set tab stops for selected paragraphs.
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