2018

TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY
218 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2018
To view the glyphs in a font, display the Glyphs palette (Window menu) and
choose a font and font style from the Font family and style 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, the application will simulate bold, italic, or bold italic on the glyphs as it
does when you apply the Bold and Italic type styles using the Measurements
palette.
To view a subset of the glyphs in the font, choose an option from the Show•
drop-down menu.
T
o see any alternates available for a glyph, click the box in the lower-right corner•
of an individual glyph’s cell.
You can search for a glyph in the Glyph palette using Character or Unicode•
value options.
If necessary, click the Zoom tool on the palette to increase the size of the glyphs.•
If you need a glyph’s Unicode code point — for HTML authoring, for example —•
you can see the Unicode code in the lower part of the palette.
To insert a glyph at the text insertion point, double-click the glyph in the•
Glyphs palette.
If you frequently use specific glyphs from a font, you can save those glyphs as•
favorites for quick access. To create a favorites list, first click the expander next
to Favorite Glyphs in the Glyphs palette (Window menu). Then, simply drag a
glyph to an empty cell in the Favorite Glyphs area. To delete a favorite,
Control+click/right+click the glyph and use the context menu. The Unicode
value of the selected glyph displays at the right bottom corner (above the
Favorite Glyphs pane).
Displaying invisible characters
The Invisibles option (View menu) is always helpful when editing text or fine-
tuning typography because it allows you to see common “invisible characters” such
as spaces, tabs, and paragraph returns.
Inserting special characters
There are all kinds of special characters for typographic and formatting purposes.
You can enter such special characters using keyboard commands or choose them
from the Utilities > Insert Character submenu. Each character displays differently
when invisibles are showing (View > Invisibles).
Inserting spaces
To insert a specific type of space — such as an em space — at the text insertion
point, choose Utilities > Insert Character > Special > Em Space or Utilities >
Insert Character > Special (nonbreaking) > Em Space. The options in the
Nonbreaking Space submenu act as “glue” between two words or numbers, for