Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

Kern Outside the Text Block or Box

If for some reason you must do it by hand, try this in your page layout application: Insert a hard space in front of the first quotation mark. Then kern until the quotation mark hangs outside the text block or box. In QuarkXPress, the mark may seem to disappear, but it will print just fine.

Notice the quotation mark is hanging outside of the text block.

To type this:	Mac in general	Windows
non-breaking space	Option Spacebar	Alt 0160
	Mac InDesignCommand Option X	Windows InDesignControl Alt X

In InDesign, you can also select the space and use the contextual menu (right-click; on a Mac, Control-click); choose “Insert ...