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If you want to change the character spacing, enter a value in the Track/Sending Amount
field.
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Click OK.
Aligning characters on a line
The Character Alignment feature gives you several options for aligning small characters
in a line of text to the largest character in a line of text. You can align characters based on
their baselines, their em boxes, or their ICF boxes.
Em boxes are the bounding boxes of characters. The ideographic character face (ICF) box is
a boundary inside the em box beyond which a glyph cannot extend. ICF boxes are necessary
to ensure that glyphs in an East Asian text flow do not touch each other. The red area in
the digram below represents the boundaries of the em box. The yellow area represents the
ICF box.
Red represents the em box. Yellow represents the ICF box.
To align smaller characters with the largest characters that appear in the same line of text,
choose an option from the Style > Character Alignment submenu. Alternatively, choose
Style > Formats and choose an option from the Char Align drop-down menu.
The alignment options are:
• ICF Box Top: Aligns small characters with the top of the ICF box.
• Embox Top: Aligns small characters with the top edge of the em box of the largest character
in a line of horizontal text.
• Embox Bottom: Aligns small characters with the bottom edge of the em box of the largest
character in a line of horizontal text.
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