Adobe ILLUSTRATOR CS2 User Manual page 383

See also
"To apply all caps and small caps" on page 388
To use smart punctuation
The Smart Punctuation command searches for keyboard punctuation characters and replaces them with their
typographic equivalents. In addition, you can use the Smart Punctuation command to globally insert ligatures and
fractions, if the font includes these characters.
If you're using an OpenType font, use the OpenType palette instead of the Smart Punctuation dialog box typeset
ligatures and fractions.
If you want to replace characters in specific text, rather than all text in the document, select the desired text objects
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or characters.
Choose Type > Smart Punctuation.
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3 Select one or more of the following options:
Renders ff, fi, or ffi letter combinations as ligatures.
ff, fi, ffi Ligatures
Renders ff, fl, or ffl letter combinations as ligatures.
ff, fl, ffl Ligatures
Changes straight keyboard quotation marks into curly quotes.
Smart Quotes
Note: The Smart Quotes option always replaces straight quotes with curly quotes, regardless of the Double Quotes and
Single Quotes settings in the Document Setup dialog box.
Eliminates multiple spaces after a period.
Smart Spaces
Replaces a double keyboard dash with an en dash and a triple keyboard dash with an em dash.
En, Em Dashes
Replaces three keyboard periods with ellipsis points.
Ellipses
Replace separate characters used to represent fractions with their single-character equivalents.
Expert Fractions
4 Select Entire Document to replace text symbols in the entire file or Text Only to replace symbols only in selected
text.
5 (Optional) Select Report Results to see a list of the number of symbols replaced.
Click OK to search for and replace selected characters.
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See also
"To use ligatures and contextual alternates" on page 393
"To format fractions and ordinals" on page 394
"To specify curly or straight quotes" on page 373
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