quotation mark problem

[Harun 34]

Hi,

Quotation marks appear distorted when text is italicized 

how do i solve this problem

I would be happy if you help

[John Waller]

Which Adobe app are you using?

[Harun 34]

Sory,

Adobe İndesign

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[James Gifford—NitroPress]

It's hard to guess exactly what's going on from your small screen snip, but —

• The font or document could be corrupted;
• The font kerning data may not accommodate the large swash F next to a quote mark (not every possible combination of characters is always mapped in kerning);
• The italics may be applied only as far as the F, exaggerating the kerning collision with the non-italic quote mark.

On that last, I often see collision between a last italicized character and a next non-ital one, moreso in web text than in InDesign but it's not uncommon in any layout. (My solution in web design is to tack a few points of right-padding onto any italicized style, so that the next character is pushed over a bit, thus forcing something like desired or "normal" spacing.)

I think you may just have to fix this manually, or with a GREP style. It's unlikely there is any fix, per se; it's just an unlucky combination of fonts exceeding the limits of auto-spacing and kerning. Either a tracking value or inseting some width of space (from thin on up) would 'solve' the problem, if imperfectly.

[Harun 34]

hi mr.

Yes, I think it can be done manually as you said, it is entirely related to the font.

[Barb Binder]

Hi @Harun 34:

It's just the shape/angle of the italicised letter f next to the apostrophe, which isn't in italics. Is there some reason that you wouldn't put italics on the apostrophe?

~Barb

[Harun 34]

hi barb,

Proper nouns will be written in italics, suffixes after the nouns will be regular, f' apostrophe will be regular

[Barb Binder]

Ok. Well, nothing is actually distorted, it's just that the f is leaning to the right and the apostrophe is not getting out of the way because it is not italics.

Looking at my font, the f is only italic character that slants into the roman apostrophe. I manually edited the horizontal spacing (and added a color to help you see it), saved it as a character style and assigned the character style as a GREP style to the f'.

~Barb

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

For this - the optical alignment is off due to certain settings

Change the kerning option - here it's set to 0

If you set it to optical it works well

[Harun 34]

hi, Eugene Tyson

thanks thankst hanks