Sascha Leib Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Hello all, I've only just downloaded Publisher Beta and my first impression of it is very good, indeed. Keep up the good work! :-) The first thing I've noticed however is that I can't find an option for hanging punctuation. I don't know if it doesn't exist (in which case it should really be added) or if it's just too hidden (so it should probably be easier to find ;-) For those who don't know it: what happens in "hanging punctuation" is that, e.g. a line of justified or right-aligned text that has a punctuation in the end, this punctuation mark would be moved a bit further to the right than the letters of other lines, so that the alignment is more visually even. Admittedly, that's a "pro" feature and not everybody would know how to use it, but as the saying goes: many trifles make perfection. Best regards /sascha Sideshowlol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 That can be achieved by setting the first line indent to a lower value than the left indent. For example: Edit: I think I read too quickly. I see I haven't accounted for punctuation. Sorry. postmadesign 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysogonus Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I think we're talking about what InDesign refers to as Optical Margin Alignment (also achievable with the microtype package in LaTeX) – that is a key desideratum for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysogonus Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Actually, this already exists! There is an 'Optical Alignment' section in the Character palette. MarekGFX, Sideshowlol and cloudbusting 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudbusting Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Well spotted, Chrysogonus! I agree with Sascha that this feature should be much more visible than it is. And maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't think to look in the Character palette for this as I would consider this a Paragraph property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sascha Leib Posted September 1, 2018 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 Thanks everybody for the good replies. Indeed, I must have missed this option because it was at a rather unexpected place. Having said that, I have to admit that the options and control over the alignment far exceed my expectations. Great job! May I, however, still recommend to move this to the "Paragraph" options? The way it works it is much more related to hyphenation and paragraph alignment than to how characters are displayed. Other than that – perfect! (at least until I find time to test this feature a bit more thoroughly... ) Cheers /sascha Sideshowlol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 The values you use can depend on the font, so if you use a Character style that changes font you may want it to change the optical alignment settings too. That is why it is a character attribute. Sideshowlol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sideshowlol Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Thank you to all for the answers to Sascha Leib's question re hanging punctuation. I hoped I would find it somewhere. Optical alignment is a very powerful and useful feature in Publisher. Thank you Affinity for continuing to develop this great app in conjunction with Designer and Photo. 🙏 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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