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Typography
Which Marks Hang
A left-aligned paragraph that opens with a quotation mark begins a little inside the margin, because the mark takes up the width of a letter, and the left edge of the page gets a notch. The software has done what it was asked to do, which was to line up the invisible boxes the characters sit in.
The rest of this essay is in the book
It goes on to cover:
- Aligned by the box
- A reason we cannot support
- What the 42-line Bible let out of the line
- Shaved type and the chase
- What InDesign and the browsers do
- The one switch Typst has
- Switch it on where it exists
Further reading
- The Elements of Typographic Style · Robert Bringhurst · Open Library