Appearance styles
Appearance styles include plain, bold, italic, underline, outline,
shadow, small caps, and strikethrough. With the exception of the
Plain option, you can use as many of these appearances as you like on
the same text. Applying the Plain setting removes other font styles
that have been applied to revert text to its standard appearance.
Depending on the typeface, using certain styles might not have the
desired effect, and can even make text appear ugly when printed. For
example, applying bold to a heavy weight typeface can make charac-
ters look too thick. Similarly, applying italic to an already italicized
font might exaggerate the slant of the characters.
Capitalization styles
Capitalization styles format text as uppercase, lowercase, or title
(first letter of each word capitalized) styles. You can apply one of
these capitalization styles to the same text: Normal, Upper, Lower,
and Title.
Baseline position
The baseline of text is the imaginary horizontal line on which charac-
ters sit. To position characters above (superscript) or below (sub-
script) the normal baseline, you can shift the baseline position.
Canvas does not change the type size of superscript and subscript
text. Unless you reduce the type size of shifted text, the line size
increases by the amount of the baseline shift. As a result, the line
spacing might change, depending on the leading setting. If you dont
want the line spacing to change, you can reduce the type size of
shifted text by the same amount (or more) of the baseline shift, or you
can specify leading in points (see Setting line and paragraph spac-
ing, page 28.551).
If you use the Style submenu to change baseline position, you can
choose either Superscript or Subscript to shift text the baseline by
roughly 27 to 33 percent of point size of the line. For example, super-
script text in a line of 12-point text appears 4.0 points above the nor-
mal baseline.
If you use the Character tab of the Type palette to change the baseline
position, you can specify the exact distance (in points) of the text
above or below the normal baseline.