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Special Typographical Characters in QuarkXPress and InDesign

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The following topics detail the concepts of, and the tokens used to display, the most widely used special characters used in typography.

 

These are: Discretionary Hyphen, Discretionary Return, em- and en- Characters, em- and en- Dashes, en-Space, Figure/Digit Space, Flex Space, General ASCII Characters, Hard and Soft Returns, Indent Here, Next Column, Next Linked Box, Nil (no text), Nonbreaking Hyphen, Nonbreaking Space, Normal Space, Punctuation Space, Right Indent Tab, Tabulation.

 

You can display the above special characters using special character markers for QuarkXPress or InDesign.

 


Topic 175605, last updated on 13-Dec-2022