Ligatures diacritical marks, Ligatures, Diacritical marks – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Automatic Kashidas
Ligatures
You can automatically apply ligatures to character pairs in Arabic and Hebrew. Ligatures are typographic replacement characters for certain letter
pairs if they are available in a given Open Type font.
When you choose Ligatures from the Character panel menu or Control panel menu, a standard ligature defined in the font is produced.
1. Select text.
2. Choose Ligatures from the Character panel menu or the Control panel menu.
However, some Open Type fonts include more ornate, optional ligatures, which can be produced when you choose Discretionary Ligatures. These
ligatures are found at Character panel > OpenType > Discretionary Ligatures.
Enable automatic ligatures
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.
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