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Selecting alternate glyphs in OpenType font

1 Choose Type > Glyphs to display the Glyphs panel.

2 Select Alternates For Selection from the Show list.

3 Using the Type tool, select a character in your document.

4 Do one of the following to replace the selected character in the document:

Double-click a glyph in the Glyphs panel.

Select a glyph on the menu.

Display OpenType glyph attributes in the Glyphs panel

For easy selection, the Glyphs panel allows you to display characters for only the selected OpenType attributes. You
can select various options from the Show menu in the Glyphs panel.

Show menu options in the Glyphs panel

1 In the Glyphs panel, choose an OpenType font from the font list.

2 Choose an option from the Show menu.

The options displayed vary depending on which font is selected. For information on applying OpenType font
attributes, see “

Apply OpenType font attributes

” on page 246. For more information on OpenType fonts, see

www.adobe.com/go/opentype

.

Highlight alternate glyphs in the text

1 Choose Edit > Preferences

> Composition (Windows) or InDesign

> Preferences

> Composition (Mac

OS).

2 Select Substituted Glyphs, and then click OK. Substituted glyphs in the text are highlighted in nonprinting yellow.