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Roman hanging punctuation

Roman hanging punctuation - Illustrator Tutorial

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Roman hanging punctuation

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- [Narrator] All right. Now, I'm going to show you how to move common punctuation marks, such as this quote and this period, out of the text frame. And you do so using a little known feature called Roman Hanging Punctuation that can come in quite handy at times. All right. So I'll go ahead and switch to our document so far. Notice that the period is inside the text frame. I'll go ahead and select the text so you can see it. And I'm going to turn off the guides layer as well because we don't really need it. All right. So I'll just go ahead and double click inside this text here in order to attempt to select it, but notice what I've done. I've automatically switched to the type tool, of course, and I've also positioned my blinking insertion marker but I haven't positioned it inside the second to last line of type because the last line of type is too ginormous. And so I just can't get to it by clicking or dragging.…

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