9.3

Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines
To cut or copy an anchored item, select the item as you would any text character and
choose Edit > Cut or Edit > Copy. To paste the anchored item elsewhere, place the Text
Insertion bar in a different location and choose Edit > Paste. To delete an anchored item,
select the item or insert the Text Insertion bar after it, and press Delete/Backspace.
Unanchoring boxes and lines
To unanchor an item, select it with the Item tool and choose Item > Duplicate to create
an unanchored copy of the item — the duplicated item will be placed on the page according
to the settings in the Step & Repeat dialog box (Item menu). Then delete the anchored
item from the text by selecting it with the Text Content tool and pressing
Delete/Backspace.
Working with OpenType fonts
OpenType is a cross-platform font format developed by Adobe and Microsoft that
accommodates large character sets and glyphs, often including fractions, discretionary
ligatures, old-style numerals, and more. When text has an OpenType font applied, you
can access any style options built into that font through the Character Attributes dialog
box (Style > Character).
Learning about the distinction between characters and glyphs can help you understand
how OpenType styles work. A character is an element of a written language — uppercase
letters, lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation are all characters. A glyph is actually
an image that represents a character, possibly in different forms. For example, a standard
numeral 1 is a character, whereas an old-style numeral 1 is a glyph. As another example,
an "f" and an "i" next to each other are characters, whereas an "fi" ligature is a glyph.
A one-to-one relationship does not always exist between characters and glyphs. In some
cases, three characters (such as a 1, a virgule, and a 4) make up a single fraction glyph. Or,
one character may be represented by three possible glyphs (three different ampersand
symbols, for example). You can select individual characters for formatting and editing,
regardless of the glyphs used.
Applying OpenType styles
You can apply an OpenType "style" to characters to display different, specially designed,
or repositioned glyphs within the current font. For example, you can apply Fractions to
access specific fraction glyphs instead of manually formatting fractions by resizing and
repositioning existing characters. Likewise, applying Standard Ligatures represents
characters according to ligatures available in the font. (See "Using ligatures" for more
information.) You can apply many styles in combination, although some, such as
Superscript and Subscript, are mutually exclusive.
To apply OpenType styles in the Character Attributes dialog box (Style > Character) and
the Edit Character Attributes panes (Edit > Style Sheets) for setting up character and
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