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Hanging punctuation orexdentation is amicrotypographic technique oftypesettingpunctuation marks andbullet points, most commonlyquotation marks andhyphens, further towards the edge so that they do not disrupt the ‘flow’ of a body of text or ‘break’ themargin ofalignment. It is so called because the punctuation appears to hang in the margin of the text and is not incorporated into the block or column of text. It is commonly used when text is fullyjustified.
The style was used by Gutenberg in theGutenberg Bible, the first book printed in Europe.
Fewdesktop publishing applications allow for automatic hanging punctuation. This often requires manual intervention by the designer or typographer, or the use of drawing software which supports this feature, or the use of sophisticated typesetting tools.PdfTeX, a variant of theTeX typesetting program, has microtypographic capabilities that allow for semi-automatic hanging punctuation.[1]Arbortext APP (formerly 3B2),QuarkXPress,Adobe InDesign andCorel Ventura are desktop publishing applications which offer automatic support for hanging punctuation.
The blogging platformMedium implemented hanging quotes in 2014.[2]
A proposal to add hanging punctuation property toCSS was added to the W3C Working Draft in 2018.[3] It is supported inSafari 10+.[4]
A related concept isoptical margin alignment; letters such asW are set slightly into the margin to create an illusion of balance ofwhite space.
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