To Specify Hanging Punctuation For Roman Fonts; To Convert Point Or Paragraph Text; To Change The Direction Of Text - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

To specify hanging punctuation for Roman fonts

Hanging punctuation controls whether punctuation marks fall inside or outside the margins. If hanging punctuation
is turned on for Roman fonts, then periods, commas, single quotation marks, double quotation marks, apostrophes,
hyphens, em dashes, en dashes, colons, and semicolons appear outside the margins.
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Choose Roman Hanging Punctuation from the Paragraph panel menu. A check mark indicates that the option is
selected.
Note: When you use Roman Hanging Punctuation, any double-byte punctuation marks available in Chinese, Japanese,
and Korean fonts in the selected range will not appear outside the margins.

To convert point or paragraph text

The Horizontal Type and Vertical Type tools let you create point text (independent lines of text) or paragraph text
(justifiable text that wraps within a bounding box). You can quickly convert point text to paragraph text and vice
versa.
Note: When you convert paragraph text to point text, all characters outside the bounding box are deleted. To avoid losing
text, resize the bounding box so that all text is visible prior to conversion.
1 Using the Selection tool
Note: You can't convert the text layer if it's in text-editing mode.
Using the Text tool , right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) anywhere in the Composition panel,
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and choose Convert To Paragraph Text or Convert To Point Text.
When you convert from paragraph text to point text, a carriage return is added at the end of each line of text, except
the last line.
To display the bounding box of paragraph text and automatically select the Text tool, double-click the text layer in
the Timeline panel.

To change the direction of text

The Vertical Type and Horizontal Type tools let you enter text that flows horizontally or vertically. Horizontal text
flows from left to right; multiple lines of horizontal text lie from top to bottom. Vertical text flows from top to
bottom; multiple lines of text lie from right to left.
When you convert the vertical or horizontal orientation of a text layer, the results from paragraph text (justifiable
text that wraps within a bounding box) are very different from the results of point text (independent lines of text)
because paragraph text flows relative to its bounding box while point text lies relative to the Composition panel. For
example, when you convert paragraph text from horizontal to vertical or vice versa, the text's bounding box doesn't
change its orientation, but the flow of text inside the box does.
, select the text layer.
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