5 Choose Edit > Deselect All. 6 Choose File > Save.
Hanging punctuation outside the margin Expert typographers often prefer to align text visually rather than numerically. Sometimes, particularly with punctuation at the beginning and end of lines, margins that are in fact even may appear uneven. To fix this visual discrepancy, designers use optical margin alignment to “hang” punctuation and swashes on characters slightly outside the text frame. In this exercise, you will apply optical margin alignment to the pull quote. 1 Scroll and zoom as necessary to view the pull quote on the right-facing page. 2 Using the Type tool ( ), click in the pull quote. (If you have trouble clicking in the pull quote, first select its text frame with the Selection tool.) � Note: When you
select Optical Margin Alignment, it applies to all of the text in a story—defined as all the text in a frame or a series of threaded text frames—hence the use of the Story panel.
3 Choose Type > Story to open the Story panel. 4 Select Optical Margin Alignment, and then close the Story panel. Notice how the left edges of the opening quotation marks now hang outside the text frame. The text looks more visually aligned. Without (left) and with (right) Optical Margin Alignment.
5 Choose Edit > Deselect All. 6 Choose File > Save.
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