Hanging Punctuation in InDesign
BY Samuel John Klein
Associate Editor, Quark VS InDesign.com
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 “hang”…
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