Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 - Manual (Page 423)

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Last updated 6/5/2015
Choose a number style in OpenType fonts
1 To change the style of existing numbers, select the characters or type objects you want to change. If you don’t select
any text, the setting applies to new text you create.
2 Make sure that an OpenType font is selected.
3 In the OpenType panel, choose an option from the Figures pop-up menu:
Default Figure Uses the default style for the current font.
Tabular Lining Uses full-height figures all of the same width (if available for the current font). This option is
appropriate in situations where numbers need to line up from one line to the next, as in tables.
lining numbersProportional Lining Uses full-height figures with varying widths (if available for the current font).
This option is recommended for text that uses all caps.
oldstyle figuresProportional Oldstyle Uses varying-height figures with varying widths (if available for the current
font). This option is recommended for a classic, sophisticated look in text that doesn’t use all caps.
Tabular Oldstyle Uses varying-height figures with fixed, equal widths (if available for the current font). This option
is recommended when you want the classic appearance of old-style figures, but need them to align in columns, as
in an annual report.
Format fractions and ordinals in OpenType fonts
When using an OpenType font, you can automatically format ordinal numbers with superscript characters (for
example,
). Characters such as the superscript “a” and “o” in the Spanish words segunda ( ) and segundo ( ) are
also typeset properly. You can also convert numbers separated by a slash (such as 1/2) to a shilling fraction (such as ).
1 Select the characters or type objects to which you want to apply the setting. If you don’t select any text, the setting
applies to new text you create.
2 Make sure that an OpenType font is selected.
3 In the OpenType panel, click the Ordinals button to enable or disable ordinals or the Fractions button to enable or
disable fractions. These buttons have an effect only if ordinals and fractions are available in the font.
Use smart punctuation
The Smart Punctuation command searches for keyboard punctuation characters and replaces them with their
typographic equivalents. In addition, you can use the Smart Punctuation command to globally insert ligatures and
fractions, if the font includes these characters.
If you’re using an OpenType font, use the OpenType panel instead of the Smart Punctuation dialog box to typeset
ligatures and fractions.
1 If you want to replace characters in specific text, rather than all text in the document, select the desired text objects
or characters.
2 Choose Type > Smart Punctuation.
3 Select one or more of the following options:
ff, fi, ffi Ligatures Renders ff, fi, or ffi letter combinations as ligatures.
ff, fl, ffl Ligatures Renders ff, fl, or ffl letter combinations as ligatures.
straight quotesSmart Quotes Changes straight keyboard quotation marks into curly quotes.