8.5

Kerning manually
To apply kerning between two characters, do one of the following things:
• Choose Style > Kern and enter a value in the Kern Amount field. Click OK.
• Use the Kern Amount controls in the Measurements palette.
• Use one of the keyboard commands below.
Mac OS
• 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 — 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 Table Edit dialog
box (Utilities 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.
Controlling hyphenation and justification
A hyphenation and justification (H&J) specification is a named package of settings for
hyphenating words that go over the margin of a line of text and for justifying spaces
between words and characters. You can apply H&Js to individual paragraphs, or you can
associate an H&J with a paragraph style sheet. Use the Edit Hyphenation & Justification
dialog box (Edit > H&Js > New) to control these settings.
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