Using smart punctuation
The Smart Punctuation dialog box searches for keyboard text symbols and replaces them with publishing text symbols. It can also report the number of symbols replaced. Note: Smart punctuation works with OpenType fonts only in Mac OS.
To replace standard keyboard characters with publishing characters: - Choose Type > Smart Punctuation.
- Select one or more of the following options:
- ff, fi, ffi Ligatures changes any occurrence of the ff, fi, or ffi letter combinations into ligatures (that is, a text symbol that combines two or more letters into a single, special character). To change to ligatures, you must have the appropriate Adobe Expert font installed on your system.
- ff, fl, ffl Ligatures changes any occurrence of the ff, fl, or ffl letter combinations into ligatures. To change to ligatures, you must have the appropriate Adobe Expert font installed on your system.
- Smart Quotes " " changes straight keyboard quotation marks " " and ' ' into printer's quotation marks " " and ' '.
- Smart Spaces . replaces multiple spaces after a period with a single space.
- En, Em Dashes -- replaces a double keyboard dash -- with an en dash -and to replace a triple keyboard dash --- with an em dash --.
- Ellipses . . . replaces three keyboard periods ... with ellipsis points . . .
- Expert Fractions replaces separate characters used to represent fractions with their single-character equivalents. To change to expert fractions, you must have the appropriate Adobe Expert font installed on your system.
- Select one of the following options:
- Entire Document searches and replaces text symbols in the entire file.
- Selected Text Only replaces symbols only in selected text.
- Select Report Results to see a list of the number of symbols replaced.
- Click OK to search for and replace selected characters.
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