Big space after asterisk, dash, bullet

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
August 15, 2023
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When I type a space after an asterisk, dash or bullet, the space is too wide, like 14 points. Tab bar doesn't affect it, and delete doesn't delete it. Anybody know why it's doing that? Looks like this:

* asterisk

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Grant Convey

Participant

Come on, Adobe! This should not be automatic, you should be able opt in. It drives designers MAD when you change things like this.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Come on, Adobe! This should not be automatic, you should be able opt in. It drives designers MAD when you change things like this.

By @Grant Convey

Has been like this for a couple of years already.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

Ah, yes. I was just able to reproduce this in my current version (in my case 27.8.1). Monika nailed it. Depending on what you type, it thinks you are starting a list and automatically starts one. Ironically, it doesn't do it with the bullet character (•).

As mentioned, you can turn off this behaviour in Preferences > Type. It seems that in 27.8.1, that preference seems to be checked "on" by default. I just checked a CC2022 install, which seems to be the first time this feature was introduced, and it was "off" by default there.

grrbear77Author

Participating Frequently

That's it, thanks.

Illustrator menu > Settings > Type > uncheck "Automatic Bulleted and Numbered Lists"

Monika Gause

Community Expert

You entered the list function.

Turn the automatic list of in Preferences > Type

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

Is it one particular font?

also: what version? what System?

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