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Working with hanging characters
Hanging character sets handle both hanging punctuation and margin alignment.
Margin alignment lets you hang characters partially outside the margin to create
visually uniform text alignment along the margin. Hanging punctuation lets you
hang punctuation characters fully outside the margin so that the text is flush
against either a uniform margin at the beginning of a line of text (leading) or
against a uniform margin at the end of a line of text (trailing).For example, the
quotation mark in the first sample text below is hanging outside the leading
margin, which allows the first character in the first line of text to align evenly
with the rows of text below it. The quotation mark in the second sample text
below is hanging outside the trailing margin.
The opening quotation mark in this sample text is a leading hanging character
The closing quotation mark in this sample text is a trailing hanging character
The second line in this sample text shows no hang on the left, but shows a leading hang on the right.