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Type Styles

QuarkXPress has 13 character-level styles which can be applied to type. These are applied using icons on the Measurement palette, with the Style menu, or with the Character Attributes dialog box. InDesign has direct equivalents for most of those attributes (see Table 44-1), though you apply some of them differently than in XPress. In addition, InDesign has two character-level attributesligatures and no breakwhich don't exist in XPress.

Table 44-1. Character styles

Font Styling

InDesign controls its own font menus, and only type styles which actually exist in the font appear in the Font Family menu on the Character palette and in the Font menu under the Type menu. To choose font styling (Plain, Bold or Italic), pick a typeface using one of these methods, or use a keyboard shortcut.

If you press the keyboard shortcut for bold or italic, InDesign will only apply the style if those font styles actually exist. However, these shortcuts may not work the same with every font. For example, Sumner Stone, the designer of Adobe's Stone Sans, Stone Serif and Stone Informal families, decided that the Bold command should call out the semibold weight of the font instead of the bold weight.

Underline and Strikethrough

InDesign uses the same Underline and Strikethrough type styles as QuarkXPress. The strikethrough thickness is 1/2 point, but the underline thickness varies with the font size. Unfortunately, there are no controls in InDesign for setting the line thickness or offset for either type style. There is no match for XPress's Word Underline style. You must create that manually by removing the Underline style from space bands (see Chapter 52 for a shortcut technique).

All Caps and Small Caps

InDesign includes the same All Caps and Small Caps type styles that QuarkXPress has, but InDesign's implementation is more sophisticated. These type styles are found on the Character palette's flyout menu. Applying the All Caps style does not change the case of the type, only its appearance (to change the case, use the Change Case command described below). Applying the Small Caps style calls out the small cap glyphs if they exist in the font (as is the case with many "pro" OpenType fonts). If they don't exist, InDesign does the same thing as XPress: It synthesizes them using the settings in Text Preferences, reducing the text size.

If you apply the All Caps and Small Caps styles to OpenType fonts, it applies more typographically sophisticated changes. For example, if you apply All Caps, it shifts certain punctuation marks vertically so their appearance in improved.

Changing Case

In addition to the type styles described in the previous section, InDesign has Change Case commands in the Type menu. These aren't really type styles; they're more like functions you can use to change text characters. There are four Change Case commands:

• Uppercase actually changes the characters to the uppercase characters, rather than simply changing their appearance. We'd rather just use the All Caps style.




• Lowercase changes all characters to lowercase characters.




• Title Case capitalizes the first letter of each word.




• Sentence case capitalizes the first letter of each sentence.

Changing Position

QuarkXPress has three type styles for offsetting a character from the baseline and optionally scaling it smaller: superscript, subscript and superior. InDesign has two: superscript and subscript, both of which are found on the Character palette flyout menu. You can set the preferences for the size and position for each of these in the Text panel of the Preferences dialog box.

If you're using an OpenType font which contains real superscript and subscript glyphs for the characters you're using, you can instead choose Superscript/Superior or Subscript/Inferior from the OpenType submenu (in the Character palette's flyout menu).

Ligatures

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ligature is a character that combines two or more characters into one. The most common examples are the

fi and

fl ligatures which are part of the Macintosh font encoding (but not Windows). Unlike QuarkXPress, InDesign applies ligatures as a character attribute. (For XPress it's a document preference which is applied globally.) Ligatures can also be included in a character or paragraph style.

When you turn on ligatures (from the flyout menu in the Character palette) with an OpenType font, InDesign uses any standard ligatures which the font designer has included in the font. Additionally, however, you can choose Discretionary Ligatures on the OpenType submenu, and turn on additional discretionary and historical ligatures which may be defined in the font (see Figure 44-3).

No Break

When you want to keep a word or words from breaking in QuarkXPress, you can either use a discretionary hyphen or non-breaking spaces and hyphens. InDesign lets you use those methods, but also adds another option: You can keep a range of selected characters from breaking by applying the No Break type style, found on the Character palette menu; this can also be included in a character or paragraph style. When you use it, InDesign attempts to keep the selected characters on the same line. It's not a good idea to apply this to more than one or two words because if all the characters can't fit on one line, the rest of the story gets overset!