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I’ve been working on a CD album insert for Emma as a design project. It has a lot of song lyrics and for compactness we’ve replaced line breaks in the lyrics with slashes.
I thought it would be nice if the slashes played their role as more muted visual elements rather than looking like prime elements of the content, so I decided to color them all gray.
Ah, crap, now that I've blown up these screenshots for my blog I can see the apostrophes (') aren't properly smart (’). Gonna have to fix that.
By the way, go listen to Emma Azelborn's new album! It's excellent! https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/emmaazelborn1/magnolia-sun
@harris So you can do this really easily with find/change in Adobe Indesign. I just did a test case. In under a minute I found and changed all the slashes in a test doc from black to hot pink. In fact, I'd always recommend Indesign over Illustrator for document layout. Illustrator is more for making vector graphics, Indesign is for laying out books/posters/anything that requires both text and images. I <3 Indesign a lot, it's one of my favorite programs. Not sure if you have access to it tho.
@rootrambler Ooh thanks for the tip! My instinct was also to use InDesign not illustrator for this! But the company doing the printing provided only an Illustrator template, which I took as a sign that was their preferred format for whatever reason 
@harris Hmm, it's been a while since I've done any formatting for print publication, but usually you can just ask them how they want their documents formatted. I haven't had an issue with using Indesign before, but who knows.