Apple Numbers '08 - Manual (Page 129)

Chapter 7 Working with Text 129
Using Advanced Typography Features
Some fonts, such as Zapfino and Hoefler, have advanced typography features, which let
you create different effects. If you are using a font in a text box that has different
typography effects available, you can change many of the effects in the Font submenu
of the Format menu. For example, you may be able to adjust the following:
 Kern: Place characters closer together or farther apart.
 Ligature: Use or leave out stylish flourishes between letters or at the end or
beginning of lines that combine two or more text characters into one glyph.
In the Ligature submenu, choose Use Default to use ligature settings specified in the
Typography window for the font you’re using, choose Use None to turn off ligatures
for selected text, or choose Use All to turn on additional ligatures for the selected
text.
 Baseline: Move text higher or lower than the text around it.
 Capitalization: Convert characters to all capital letters, small capital letters, or initial
capital letters (title style).
Advanced typography features are available in the Typography window.
To open the Typography window:
1 Click Fonts in the toolbar.
2 In the Font panel, choose Typography from the Action pop-up menu (in the lower-left
corner).
Adjusting Font Smoothing
If the fonts on your screen look fuzzy, blurry, or jagged, you may want to adjust the font
smoothing style or change the text size at which Mac OS X starts to smooth fonts.
To smooth the fonts on your screen:
1 Open System Preferences and click Appearance.
2 Choose a font smoothing style from the pop-up menu at the bottom. Depending on
the type of display you have, you may notice only small or no differences between
smoothing styles.
3 If you plan to use small font sizes in your spreadsheet, choose a point size from the
“Turn off text smoothing for font sizes” pop-up menu. When text smoothing (or
“antialiasing”) is on, smaller fonts can be harder to read.
Ligature not used
Ligature used