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QuarkXPress 8: A Suite Response

Implementing concepts

If you would like to create a visually aligned right margin using flush right or justified text (this works even with auto hyphenation), navigate to FORMAT > PARAGRAPH ATTRIBUTES and choose the predefined option from the hanging character set drop-down menu. The default provided with QuarkXPress 8 will probably meet your needs, but when it doesn't you should know how to create your own or edit one provided. Let's try it with something you might not have considered: leading numerals.

Choose EDIT > HANGING CHARACTERS to open the hanging characters dialogue box for this project.

Click NEW and from the drop-down menu, choose CLASS.

 

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Note: A close look at these icons, and you can determine whether the class is a leading or a trailing setting. A red icon indicates drop cap.

In the edit hanging character class dialogue box, type a name for this class (I have typed Leading Numerals).

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Choose LEADING from the type drop-down menu.

 

Leave hang at 100%.

 

In the characters field, type each of the ten numerals (this, of course, does not account for double-digit numbered steps).

Click OK.

 

Click the NEW button again, and from the drop-down menu choose SET.

 

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