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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0006340 | Scribus | Story Editor / Text Frames | public | 2007-10-09 04:29 | 2016-04-04 03:32 |
| Reporter | PLucAuclair | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0006340: Letterspacing feature | ||||
| Description | I'd like to propose a new property for text: letterspacing. So far we have a "Manual tracking" features that's trying to pass as both a kerning and a letterspacing tool. :) While it can do the job, it would be much better to separate the two concepts of letterspacing and kerning with two different properties. http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6e0a.html This InDesign manual part is speaking of Kerning and Tracking, but the good term for it is Letterspacing. Kerning is the process of adding or subtracting space between specific pairs of characters. [Letterspacing] is the process of loosening or tightening a block of text. It is NOT Word-Spacing, neither is it Glyph scaling. You would normally use letterspacing to compress or expand the text and in addition of that you will use kerning to fix the pairs that won't work. Avox, you can read up about it in Bringhurst's book. :) | ||||
| Tags | discussion | ||||
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Letterspacing and wordspacing are part of the tools the app has to properly justify text and to produce an overall consistent "typographic grey". To what extent is the letterspacing or wordspacing be loosened or tightened is up to the user, in each specific case wanted. This work is in progress. http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Better_Justification_in_1.3.4 Kerning is about space (add or retrieve) between specific pairs of letters. Quark has had for a very long time a Kerning Pair Editor (edit kern table) that allows to edit/create kerning pairs on top of the values included within each specific font. I am not sure about how it is addressed terminology-wise in English but I understand that Manual Kerning is a "per case" operation that will affect a pair of letter only in that particular case and not at font level. Tracking is about overall space between a group of letters. Letter/word spacing for better overall justification has been presented at LGM2 by Andreas and is part of the current development series. Manual Kerning and Tracking are both possible at present time. Only the cursor position and selection determines whether it's one or the other. What I find could be improved here is that Scribus could keep track of the value actually applied so user could know by simply clicking in a text whether a value was added or not, and what it was. What we don't have is a kerning table edition tool. Is this what you have in mind? |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2007-10-09 04:29 | PLucAuclair | New Issue | |
| 2007-10-13 19:21 | louisdesjardins | Note Added: 0017595 | |
| 2007-10-14 04:03 | louisdesjardins | Note Edited: 0017595 | |
| 2015-09-17 20:08 | Kunda | Category | Story Editor / Text Frames => Story Ed/Txt Frames |
| 2015-09-17 20:12 | Kunda | Category | Story Ed/Txt Frames => Story Editor / Text Frames |
| 2016-04-04 03:32 | Kunda | Tag Attached: discussion |
