Glyphs, Justification alternates, Special middle east characters insertion – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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InDesign: Edit > Find/Change
In InDesign, you can use the Transliterate tab (Edit > Find/Change) to find and replace digits between Arabic, Hindi, and Farsi. For example, you
can find digits typed in Hindi and convert them to Arabic.
Glyphs
Arabic and Hebrew users can apply glyphs from the default character set. However, to browse, select, and apply a glyph from the default
character set or a different language set, use the Glyphs panel:
InDesign: Window > Type & Tables > Glyphs
Illustrator: Window > Type > Glyphs
Browse, select, and apply glyphs
Justification Alternates
A font can have alternative shapes of certain letters of the alphabet. These variations of the font face for some letters are generally available for
stylistic or calligraphy purposes. In rare cases, justification alternates are used to justify and align paragraphs for specific needs.
Justification alternates can be turned on at a paragraph level, where alternates are used wherever possible. You can also turn on or off this feature
at a character level. Justification alternates are available only in those fonts that have this feature integrated. Therefore, the option to turn them on
or off is available only for supported fonts.
Arabic fonts that contain justification alternates: Adobe Arabic, Myriad Arabic, and Adobe Naskh. Hebrew fonts that contain justification alternates:
Adobe Hebrew and Myriad Hebrew.
InDesign
Paragraph-level: Window > Paragraph panel > panel menu > Justification, and then choose an option from the Justification list.
Character-level: Window > Character panel > panel menu > Justification Alternate option.
Photoshop
Character-level: Window > Character panel > Justification Alternates checkbox.
Special Middle East characters insertion
Some characters in Arabic and Hebrew are difficult to insert in text. Also, Arabic and Hebrew keyboard layouts make it difficult to type or include
these characters. To insert characters like a Hebrew apostrophe (Geresh) or Maqaf, select a character from Character panel > panel menu >
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