2021

TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY
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.
Kerning 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 the keyboard commands. •
Kerning automatically
To automatically kern text above a specific point size, display the Character pane of
the Preferences dialog box , 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 —
and an associated kerning value for each pair in the table. You can’t change a font’s
kerning table, but you can create a custom kerning table for any font using the
Kerning pairs dialog box (Edit menu). You can use this dialog box to customize both
horizontal (With-Stream) and vertical (Cross-Stream) space in kerning pairs.
You can create your own kerning tables in QuarkXPress.
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