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'''Optical margin alignment''' [[Indentation|outdents]] charactersletters with partial or slanting sides, such aslike A, V, W, Y, and punctuation, into the margins so as to makealign the text border appearoptically. verticalSome tousers remark that it makes the humantext eye.margin Opticallook crooked, but this is because text frames or margin alignmentguides are visible. If text frames are not visible, e.g. in print preview, or when printed, the edge of punctuationa marksblock isof knowntext aslooks [[hangingmore punctuation]]even if optical margin alignment is enabled.

== Use ==

[[File:Optical Margin Alignment.png|thumb|Text is outdented into margins]]

It is designed to be used for body text, not for artistic text, table text, or [[headline]]s. It also works well for [[Block quotations|block quotes]], which benefit from so-called [[hanging“hung punctuation]].” The “Smart quotes”Quotes” are outdented 100% into the margin or paragraph indent, so that subsequent lines of text align with the first character in the quotation.

The optimal values used for the outdents is font dependent. A [[typeface]] that has capital A, V, W, and Y with vertical sides, needs no outdents for these letters, but the capital T and punctuation will still benefit from using Optical Margin Alignment.

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== References ==

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