Roman Hanging Punctuation greyed out

Question

I've got a paragraph in AE with some punctuation that i'd like to hang.

I found this option in the paragraph panel called "Roman Hanging Punctuation" and got all excited, but it's greyed out.

Am i missing something? Does this only work with certain typefaces? To test, I tried switching to several different typefaces to no avail.

I feel like there's probably an obvious step i'm missing here.

Any ideas?

leather.bird · Accepted Answer

Are there actually any special characters? Yes. I'm trying to hang quotation marks.What font? I've tried dozens.What text? Should that even matter?Did you paste it from somewhere else?Yes. I used a TextEdit document that i made "Plain Text" (no formatting).You know what though? Thank you for asking this last one because i went back and tried pasting and not pasting to see what would happen and ended up discovering that this only works if I create a text box. If I just click and type with the type tool the option is greyed out. But if I click and drag to create a text box, and then enter (or paste) my text, the hanging punctuation option is available. Like i suspected, an obvious solution that i completely missed.Thank you for your help, Mylenium​. You got me part of the way there!

Marketing27914170f5au · Answer

It will only work if your text is in a Paragraph Text Box (Type tool > drag rectangular area). If you just select the Type tool, then click the image and type some text, the "Roman hanging punctuation" selection will be greyed out (as it's a Point Text Box). Alternatively, you can convert your Point Text box to a Paragraph Text box as follows: Click on text box > Type > Convert to Paragraph Text.

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