Chapter 2. Tuning the Text
This chapter contains the following recipes:
- Inputting accented characters
- Improving justification and hyphenation
- Converting numbers to words
- Putting text into a colorful box
- Visualizing the layout
- Visualizing boxes of letters and symbols
- Typesetting in a grid
- Absolute positioning of text
- Starting a paragraph with an oversized letter
- Fitting text to a shape
- Creating a pull quote
Introduction
The previous chapter presented recipes for creating whole documents. You may use them as starting points. Now, we will focus on customizing text details. The upcoming sections broadly deal with the following:
- Manipulating text
- Positioning and arranging text
- Shaping paragraphs
We are not yet dealing with fonts. This topic deserves a whole chapter, ...
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