8.5

Applying baseline shift
You can place characters above or below their baseline without affecting paragraph spacing.
A positive value raises the text; a negative value lowers the text. To apply baseline shift to
selected text, do one of the following things:
• Choose Style > Baseline Shift, enter a value in the Baseline Shift field, and then click
OK.
• Use one of the keyboard commands below.
Mac OS
• Down 1 pt: Command+Option+Shift+-
• Up 1 pt: Command+Option++
Windows
• Down 1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+9
• Up 1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+0
Applying emphasis
To apply an emphasis mark to a character, select the character, click the Emphasis Mark
button in the Measurements palette to display the emphasis mark options, and then click
one of the options. These options are also available in the Emphasis Mark drop-down
menu in the Character Attributes palette (Style > Character).
Controlling half-width characters
To keep half-width characters (such as Roman characters) horizontal in a vertical story,
check the Keep Half-Width Characters Upright box in the Character Attributes dialog
box (Style menu).
Counting characters
The Character Count dialog box (Utilities menu) displays the number of full-width,
half-width, Bopomofo, Hangul, Kana, and Han characters used in the active story. It also
displays the number of symbols and private use characters in the selected story.
Working with font sets
Font sets let you control how different types of characters — such as Alphabetic (Roman)
and Han characters — display when they occur together in text.
You can create a new font set in the Edit Font Set dialog box (Edit > Font Sets > New).
Each font set is composed of a set of font types, each of which has its own settings.
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