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Tuning the Text
The previous chapter provided recipes for creating entire documents. You may use them as starting points. Now, we will focus on fine-tuning text elements, such as shaping paragraphs and manipulating, positioning, and arranging text.
This chapter shows recipes for:
- Improving justification and hyphenation
- Adding margin notes
- 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
- Adding drop caps
- Fitting text to a shape
- Creating a pull quote
We will not yet deal with fonts. This topic deserves a whole chapter and will be covered in Chapter 3, Adjusting Fonts.
This chapter will start with some fundamental ...
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