Questions tagged [typography]
For questions about the technique of arranging type or processed data in order to make language visible. Questions about the art of arranging type may be more suited to Graphic Design Stack Exchange.
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Soft hyphen in Microsoft Word (Office 365)
I fail to insert a soft hyphen in Microsoft Word with CTRL + - since some time now. All it does is changing the zoom level instead of inserting a soft hyphen.
Searching the web did not help much, ...
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Correct way to encode mixed width text in Unicode?
From what I read, the fullwidth glyphs in Unicode are provided solely for backward compatibility and lossless roundtrip with legacy standards such as Shift-JIS. The rationale seems to be that Unicode ...
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If the `ffi` group of characters is smushed together into one character, then why I can select each of them separately?
In the video Why You Can Tweet More In Japanese: What Counts As A Character?, the author says that:
Unicode has a single character for some English ligatures, like "ffi" - notice how the ...
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Microsoft Word - While using different font size, how to keep the same left space before letter to have proper vertical alignment
In Microsoft Word, if you have two line with different font size they will have a different space at the beginning of the line. The bigger the font size, the bigger the left space.
This is not ...
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How to distinguish between hyphens and dashes in Adobe Acrobat?
When searching a document, Adobe Acrobat does not distinguish between hyphens and dashes. For example, when I try to search for em dashes, the results include hyphens, en dashes and em dashes.
This ...
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How to reduce space at bottom of page in Microsoft Word?
My word document leaves a lot of blank space on the bottom of some pages for no apparent reason. I even have orphan/widow control turned off so that it will fill the last line even if that leads to an ...
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How to find paragraphs contain no embolden character?
In Word or Libre Writer, is there a way to find any paragraph that contains no embolden character? I would like to delete them. I can go to the Advanced Find and choose Wildcard as well as Not bold, ...
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How can I make a floating block element occupy an entire page in Microsoft Word?
I'm trying to have a picture occupy an entire page in Microsoft Word while the text flows around it, i.e. the paragraph would continue from the page before the picture directly to the page after the ...
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Word - how to put the superscript higher?
I'm writing a chemistry paper and that involves the use of superscript. My problem is that the superscript is too low for my liking. See the image:
The first one looks okay, but the second one is not ...
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Why does Firefox remove non-breaking spaces in input fields?
I have a bépo keyboard and often use non-breaking spaces, which I can insert with Shift + Space.
Now here's the thing that baffles me: in all input fields, textareas, etc., Firefox seems to replace ...
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How do I tell LibreOffice to use double spaces (or a free-form margin) for each new sentence?
I have written a long document in LibreOffice. I have written it like this:
This is a sentence. Now begins another. Here is a third.
That is, one space between each word and between each sentence.
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What is the purpose of these `NUL` characters?
This is purely out of academic curiosity, but I’ve often found files on both Windows (Windows 10 Pro; 64bit) as well as Android that are not obfuscated, but contain a bunch of NUL characters between ...
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Widowed pilcrow (non printable ¶ at line begining) in LibreOffice
I'm struggling with widowed pilcrows (i.e. non-printable ¶ at beginning of lines). This happens only in footnotes, on page-breaks, and it adds a space between the footnote's rule and the first ...
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Resize issue of WordArt in Word 2016 (MS Office Professional Plus 2016)?
I cannot resize the text in Word Art visually (i.e., by the GUI) in Word 2016.
When I resize the text Word Art by click and dragging the box corner, it only increases the outer box size and not text ...
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fmt - use single space between sentences
I've noticed that fmt uses two space characters when joining sentences across lines.
Command:
$ fmt << EOF
Hello world.
This is a nice place. And a nice website too. I come here
to ask ...
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