Text Studio

• Kerning—controls the kerning (distance) between characters.
• Tracking—controls the spacing between characters.
• Baseline—controls the position of the bottom of text characters. Positive values lower the baseline, negative values raise the baseline.
• Leading Over.—Leading Override applies a local override to selected text to increase the leading with regard to the paragraph’s leading.
• Shear—controls the extent of text slant. Positive values will tilt text to the left, negative values will tilt text to the right.
• Horz Scale—horizontal scale stretches the characters and spacing width with regard to point size.
• Vert Scale—vertical scale stretches the characters with regard to point size.

• Standard Ligatures—applies any available typeface ligatures to the selected text.
• Contextual Alternatives—applies any alternative typeface designs available for glyphs depending on their relative position within a word or with respect to neighbouring glyphs.
• Ordinals—automatically applies a superscript to letters which are part of an ordinal number.
• Fractions—dynamically converts fractions into a single glyph.
• Superscript—converts text characters to superscript, i.e. characters are set higher than neighbouring characters and font size is decreased.
• Subscript—converts text characters to subscript, i.e. characters are set lower than neighbouring characters and font size is decreased.
• All Caps—displays all selected text as upper case (or small caps, if Small Caps option selected).
• Small Caps—displays lower case letters as miniature upper case.

• Leading—controls the distance between text baselines (vertical gap between lines) within the paragraph. Select from the pop-up menu. Options include:
  • Default—sets the line spacing to the font's default (i.e. single).
  • Exactly—sets a fixed spacing (other text attributes are ignored for line spacing purposes). This can be adjusted using the presets in the pop-up menu.
  • % Height—sets spacing based on a percentage of the text's size. This can be adjusted using the presets in the pop-up menu.
  • At Least—sets a minimum spacing (actual line spacing may increase depending on other text attributes). This can be adjusted using the presets in the pop-up menu.
  • Multiple—controls line spacing as a portion of the default. This can be adjusted using the presets in the pop-up menu.
  • Custom—allows you to enter custom spacing.
• Space Before—controls the vertical gap which precedes the paragraph.
• Space After—controls the vertical gap which succeeds the paragraph.
• First Line Indent—controls the indent applied to the first line of the paragraph.
• Left Indent—controls the left indent applied to the entire paragraph (excluding the first line).
• Right Indent—controls the right indent applied to the entire paragraph.

• Word Spacing—sets the minimum, desired or maximum gap allowed.
• Letter Spacing—sets the minimum, desired or maximum tracking allowed. Preferred tracking is applicable when a paragraph has a justified alignment

• Default Tab Stops—controls the standard horizontal space added before a character when a tab stop is inserted.
• Add New Tab Stop—adds an additional tab stop position.
• Delete Selected Tab Stop—removes the selected tab stop.

For each new tab stop added, expand the tab stop entry (using the right arrow) to set:

• Tab stop alignment—sets the alignment of the current tab stop.
• Tab stop leader—sets the characters displayed up to the current tab stop.