--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in > 1023033197.1688.53.camel@cuenca:">news:1023033197.1688.53.camel@cuenca: > > > Actually, kerning is an option (in the font menu) > disabled by > > default. I missed it the first time. > > Do you know when this was first implemented? It's > not available in > Word�97, at least.
No idea, sorry. I have it in Word XP, and it seems that it was already there at least in Word 2000. > And why, oh why, have they *disabled* it by default? > Pure > incompetence? Or pure evil? I'm only guessing, but from what I've collected from internet, it seems that: 1) Normal people don't cares about it. 2) It hurts performance. 3) It don't helps too much (it may even hurt) to improve readability at screen resolution. but: 4) A few people love it. 5) It improves the readability of the text at printer resolution. 6) It improves the look of headings (when you pass 14 points kerning in screen helps a lot to fix things as VA spacing). So they put it as an option, disabled by default. When you active it, you can choose (you have to choose) to only activate it on texts greater than ?? points. Cheers, ===== Joaquin Cuenca Abela [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
