On 5/31/2014 4:14 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
My issue with Dowding (and with Gill) is that they suggest that the compositor
has an obligation to change the author's text, without consultation and
agreement, in order to meet his concept of better page makeup. Dowding's
sensitivity to the appearance of the page, on the other hand, is sadly missing
from much of book publishing today.
Long ago I have been thinking of improving some \oneof {bad}
{suboptimal} paragraphs by applying 'alternative' words, i.e. one could
\optional {for instance} write like this.
Gross manipulation of the space factors is probably too crude to accomplish much
in implementing the style Dowding promotes, although the tightness in the second
tufte from your example (modifying the punctuation) may be a starting point.
With XeTeX, one can use \interchartoks to handle general (non-font-specific)
kerning between punctuation and certain letter shapes (sloped left or right,
ascender, descender, ...) beyond what any particular font's kerning tables
provide. I see nothing in MKIV that provides this, and thought that perhaps
\definecharacterspacing might fill the role. Hence the original question in this
thread.
you can play with (subtle) expansion (hz) and specific stretch vectors
.. imo kerning other than what the font designer has in mind is normally
a bad idea; another option is to use a font with different glyphs for
the same character but I don't know of such fonts
Hans
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