Fine-Tuning Type

Almost everything I’ve talked about in this chapter has been at a character or paragraph level. Here I’m going to talk about making typographic adjustments on a layout level. You have control over several areas at a layout level, including how traditional (non OpenType) superscript, subscript, superior, and small-caps characters are “built”; which words will hyphenate; and how QuarkXPress deals with ligatures, accents, and special spaces. You can also create custom automatic tracking and kerning tables, and run through an automatic check for typographic problem areas.

Let’s look at how you can use these controls in your layouts.