2018

TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY
170 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2018
You can choose to shade an entire paragraph and then shade selected text within
that paragraph:
Controlling kerning
Kerning is the adjustment of space between character pairs. Because of their shapes,
certain character pairs look better when kerned. You can use automatic kerning, and
you can also use manual kerning controls to specify additional kerning between
characters.
K
erning values are expressed as 1/200 of an em space. A positive kerning value
increases the amount of space between characters; a negative value decreases it.
Kerning manually
To apply kerning between two characters, do one of the following things:
Use the Kern Amount controls in the Measurements palette.•
Use the ticker controls with or without Shift or Alt/ Opt modifier to modify the•
size
Use one of the keyboard commands below.•
Mac OS X
Decrease 1/20-em: Command+Shift+{•
Increase 1/20-em: Command+Shift+}•
Decrease 1/200-em: Command+Option+Shift+{•
Increase 1/200-em: Command+Option+Shift+}•
Windows
Decrease 1/20-em: Ctrl+Shift+{•
Increase 1/20-em: Ctrl+Shift+}•
Decrease 1/200-em: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+{•
Increase 1/200-em: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+}•
Kerning automatically
To automatically kern text above a specific point size, display the Character pane of
the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu), check Auto Kern Above,
and enter a value in the field.
QuarkXPress uses kerning information that is built into the font (the font’s kerning
table). A kerning table contains a number of character pairs — “Ta,” for example —