2018

TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY
258 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2018
Word Space Tracking is applied by applying manual kerning after each selected 
space. To remove Word Space Tracking, select the text and then choose Style >
Remove Manual Kerning
Line Check
U
se the Line Check feature to find widows, orphans, loosely justified lines, lines
that end with a hyphen, and text box overflow. Line Check (Utilities > Line
Check) moves through a document, highlighting questionable lines.
To specify what Line Check should look for, display the Search Criteria dialog box
(Utilities > Line Check > Search Criteria) and check the categories of undesirable
typography you want to search for:
Loose Justification is a justified line containing word or character spaces that•
exceed the maximum word or character space values in the hyphenation and
justification specifications applied to the paragraph.
An Auto Hyphenated line ends with a hyphen placed by the automatic•
hyphenation function.
A Manual Hyphenated line ends with a hyphen entered by a user.•
A Widow is the last line of a paragraph, less than a full measure wide, that falls•
at the top of the following column or page.
An Orphan is the first line of a paragraph that falls at the bottom of a column or•
page.
Text Box Overflow occurs when text cannot be displayed within its text box.•
This condition is represented by an overflow symbol in the lower right corner of
a text box.
To search the entire document, place the cursor somewhere in the text and choose
Utilities > Line Check > First Line. To search from the location of the cursor to the
end of the document, place the cursor where you want to start the search and
choose Utilities > Line Check > Next Line or press Command+;/Ctrl+;. To
continue the search, press Command+;/Ctrl+;.
Tracking value Command
Decrease space by .005 em Control+Alt+Shift+!