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Inserting other special characters
To insert a special character other than a space — such as an em dash or a current
page number placeholder character — at the text insertion point, choose Utilities >
Insert Character > Special or Utilities > Insert Character > Special
(nonbreaking).
Special characters (breaking and non breaking) can be searched for using the
Find/Change palette, see “Finding and changing text“.
Specifying character language
You can specify the language to be used for hyphenation and spell checking by
applying a character language to text. This lets you mix words from different
languages in the same paragraph without triggering poor hyphenation or more
Suspect Words in Spell Check (Utilities menu). In addition to applying a specific
language to characters, you can apply None so that a word is not considered for
hyphenation or spell checking.
To apply a language to selected characters, use the Language drop-down menu in
the Character tab of the Measurements palette.
Using font fallback
When Font Fallback is on, if the application encounters a character that is not
available in the current font, it searches through the active fonts on your system to
find a font that does include that character. For example, if Helvetica is applied at
the text insertion point and you import or paste text containing a Kanji character,
the application might apply the Hiragino font to that character. If the application
cannot find an active font that contains the character, the character still displays as
a box or symbol.
Font Fallback is implemented as an application preference, meaning that the feature
is either on or off for your copy of the program. The feature is on by default, but if
you need to turn it off, uncheck Font Fallback in the Font Fallback pane of the
Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences).
For more information about the Font Fallback feature, see “
Preferences — Application
— Font Fallback
.”
Working with font mapping rules
When you open a project, the application checks to make sure all the fonts applied
to text are active on your system. If not, the Missing Fonts alert displays, which
gives you the opportunity to replace missing fonts with active fonts. You can save
those replacements as global “font mapping rules,” which can be applied
automatically each time you open a project.
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