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Word Break and Indent Tips for InDesign & QuarkXPress

Sometimes, a word won’t hyphenate at the end of a line where YOU would like it to break. Rather than typing in a hyphen, which will flow along with the word if the line re-wraps, use a “discretionary hyphen”: an invisible character that tells your program to break and hyphenate a word at the end [...]

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Videos: Precision Typography in QuarkXPress 9.5

Quark has several brief videos that show how some of the new typography features work in QuarkXPress 9.5. Specifically, Bullets and Numbering lets you create Styles for bullets, numbering and outlines that can automate your formatting; Story Editor lets you view your text in an easy-to-read, word-processor-like view; and Linkster lets you unlink and link [...]

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Fix Text Formatting Mistakes with Clean Text and Text Cleaner

Every designer receives text that needs cleaning up, whether it’s from a client or from an email or website. Here are two handy, time-tested solutions: Apimac’s Clean Text ($20) does three handy things: • It strips formatting from text you copy to your Mac’s Clipboard, so that the copied text takes on the formatting of [...]

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Update a Style from Existing Item in QuarkXPress

In QuarkXPress 8.1 and higher, you can update a Paragraph, Character, or Item Style from an existing page item: just click the Update button on the appropriate Style palette. Here’s how it looks on the Style Sheets palette: This will update the Style to match the altered page item. Notice that when you hover your mouse over the [...]

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