Specifying hanging punctuation
Hanging punctuation makes the edges of text appear more even by moving punctuation marks outside the paragraph margins. Paragraph without hanging punctuation (left) compared to paragraph with hanging punctuation (right) Illustrator provides the following options for hanging punctuation: - Roman Hanging Punctuation controls the alignment of punctuation marks for a specific paragraph. When Roman Hanging Punctuation is turned on, the following characters appear 100% outside the margins: single quotes, double quotes, hyphens, periods, and commas; the following characters appear 50% outside the margins: asterisks, tildes, ellipses, en dashes, em dashes, colons, semicolons.
- Optical Margin Alignment controls the alignment of punctuation marks for all paragraphs within a type object. When Optical Margin Alignment is turned on, roman punctuation marks as well as the edges of letters (such as W and A) hang outside the text margins so that the type looks aligned.
- Burasagari controls the alignment of double-byte punctuation marks (available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts). These punctuation marks are not affected by the Roman Hanging Punctuation option or Optical Margin Alignment option. For more information, see Working with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean type.
Keep in mind that the paragraph alignment determines off which margin the punctuation hangs. For left-aligned and right-aligned paragraphs, punctuation hangs off the left and right margin, respectively. For top-aligned and bottom-aligned paragraphs, punctuation hangs off the top and bottom margin, respectively. For centered and justified paragraphs, punctuation hangs off both margins. Note: When a punctuation character is followed by an end-quotation mark, both characters hang.
To specify hanging punctuation for a paragraph: - Place the insertion point in the paragraph.
- Choose Roman Hanging Punctuation from the Paragraph palette menu.
To specify optical margin alignment for a type object: - Select the type object.
- Choose Type > Optical Margin Alignment.
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