Asif Lodhi wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 11/15/06, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > >> Kerning is also referred to as Tracking in some descriptions. You need >> to select (highlight) one or more letters for the kerning operation (ie, >> kerning is a property of the letters, not of a position between two >> letters). >> > > Thanks for the explanation of Kerning. > > Though I don't have Scribus installed right now on my system but, > IIRC, I did use to place cursor between any two characters and would > directly use up-and-down arrows in the property palette to adjust the > spacing "without" selecting the characters first - right in the > text-frame. I used to think that was kerning. Would you also like to > explain as to what this adjusting of space between any two characters > (without selecting) is called? Just for my understanding/learning. I > just don't get to use Scribus very often these days (busy in different > projects) and might be making a mistake here. Please explain. > > yes, you're right -- in my hurry I didn't check to see that it also worked that way. Usually I have adjusted a collection of letters at a time, but adjusting an individual space is an option.
Greg
