Diacritical marks, Copy-paste from microsoft word – Adobe InDesign CC 2015 User Manual
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Diacritical marks
In the Arabic script, a diacritic or a diacritical mark is a glyph used to indicate consonant length or short vowels. A
diacritical mark is placed above or below the script. For better styling of text, or improved readability of certain fonts,
you can control the vertical or horizontal position of diacritical marks:
1
Select text that has diacritical marks
2
In the Character panel, modify the position of the diacritic marks relative to the script. Values you can change are,
Adjust Horizontal Diacritic Position, and the Adjust Vertical Diacritic Position.
Copy-paste from Microsoft Word
You can copy text from Microsoft Word, and paste it directly into a document. The pasted text's alignment and
direction is automatically set to that of the arabic or hebrew text.