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Table of contents
Table of contents
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Leading
Leading
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Leading
Leading is the amount of added vertical spacing between baselines of types
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The leading match with the larger letter
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Leading
Leading
If your application allows you to adjust the leading, then select the entire paragraph and reset the leading to what it originally was for the smaller type. Sometimes you can adjust the leading, but it will not let you go smaller than the auto-leading for the larger size, the one that’s disruptive; in that case you will need to adjust the linespace of the entire paragraph to match the larger size letter or words.
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Stacking
Enough leading
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Leading
Option
Shift
Leading
If you’re having difficulty fixing the leading in a program, you may set the initial cap in its own text block and move it next to the text block which contains the rest of body copies. If you are using a layout program that does not let you adjust your linespace at all, you can try to select one of the blank spaces in between the words on one line, change the point size of the blank space to the same size as the size of the larger initial cap or the words that has caused all these troubles. You have to do this separately for each line in the paragraph.
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Dashes
Dashes
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Dashes
A dash is a punctuation mark
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Dashes
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Hyphen is -, it is between 0 and = on the keyboard
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Dashes
Hyphens
A Hyphen is strictly for hyphenating words or line breaks. Your punctuation style manual like The Chicago Manual of Style, goes into great detail about the proper use of hyphens. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of confusion about when or where to use a hyphen, your computer will automatically inserts them at the ends of lines when necessary. The hyphen is in between the zero and the plus sign at the top-right corner of your keyboard. Almost as bad as dumb hyphenations are too much hyphenations in a row. Sometimes you cannot avoid hyphenating, but it is never necessary to hyphenate three times in a row, or six of the eight lines in a paragraph. In those cases, you really have to adjust something. Less than one hyphenation per paragraph is preferred when possible.
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Dashes
En-dash
An En-dash is called an En-dash because it’s approximately the width of a capital letter N in that particular font and size. It is used between words that indicate a duration, such as the time or months or years. You can use it where you might otherwise use the word “to”. En-dashes are also used when you’re having a compound adjective and one of the elements is made of two words or a hyphenated word such as “high-stress–high-energy”. In a page layout application, the En-dash can be used with a thin space on either side of it if you want a little room, but don’t use a full space. To type an En-dash, hold the option key down, tap the hyphen key on the top right corner of your keyboard after that.
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Dashes
Em-dash
The Em-dash is about the size of a capital letter M in whatever size and typeface you’re using at the moment. It is often used in place of a colon or parentheses, to indicate an abrupt change in thought, or it’s used in a spot where a period is too long and a comma is too weak. Since you were properly taught, of course, you know that the double hyphen is not supposed to have a space on either side of it—neither are the Em-dashes, as you can see in this sentence. To type an Em-dash, hold the shift and option keys down, then tap the hyphen key.
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Ligatures
Ligatures
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Ligatures
In typography, ligatures occur where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph
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Ligatures
Ligatures
Ligatures usually replace consecutive characters sharing common components and they are part of a more general class of glyphs so called “contextual forms”, where the specific shape of a letter depends on context such as surrounding letters or proximity to the end of a line. Many ligatures combine “f” with an adjacent letter. The most prominent example is fi. The dot above the “i” in many typefaces collides with the hood of the “f” when next to each other in a word, and they are combined into a single glyph with the dot absorbed into the “f”. These arose because with the usual type sort for lowercase f, the end of its hood is on a kern, which would be damaged by collision with raised parts of the next letter.
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Ligatures
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ſl ſi ſk fft
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Ligatures
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Special characters
Special characters
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Option 2
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Special characters
Option 3
Option keyboard
Option 4
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Special characters
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Apostrophe
Apostrophe
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Apostrophe
Apostrophe means “elision” through Latin and French
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Marking of possessives
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Apostrophe
CH 2 The omission of one or more letters
Apostrophe
The Apostrophe is a punctuation mark and also a diacritic mark in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. It’s serving two main purposes in english—the omission of one or more letters and the marking of possessives (as in the cat's whiskers). It’s also used to distinguish decades, temperature, and ages. In a date when part of the year was left out, an apostrophe needs to indicate the missing year. For example, “In the ’80s” would mean the decade; the “19” is left out. “In the 80s” would mean the temperature.
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Colophon
Colophon
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Colophon
Colophon
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