Hanging Punctuation in QuarkXPress

Hanging punctuation–the prac­tice of let­ting open­ing punc­tu­a­tion “hang out” beyond the visu­al edge of a block of text which actu­al­ly rein­forces that edge–is not some­thing that’s auto­mat­ic in QuarkXPress: it takes …

Hanging Punctuation in InDesign

When try­ing to achieve a clean edge on the type in your para­graph, one must push the open­ing punc­tu­a­tion (typ­i­cal­ly an open-quote) beyond the ver­ti­cal visu­al line of alignment–make the puncutuation …