> I have a customer who has a designer who has specified the setting of > certain > text headings etc. with the terminology: > "kerning 250" > or > "kerning 40" > > I am not familiar with this particular terminology. Neither is my InDesign > consultant. It looks like 100 may be normal letter spacing but I am not > sure. In any case I would call this tracking rather than kerning. Since it > isn't TeX and isn't InDesign teminology I assume it is Quark-speak. > > Any Quark folk on list who have seen this kind of specification before? If > so can you explain what is desired in the two instances shown above? Are > these 100th parts of an em or an en? I hate to look ignorant to my customer > but my experience is primarily in TeX where fiddling with letter spacing is > more or less anathema. >
Hi! Although I'm not familiar with either of the techniques, I would suggest this article which explains kerning in contrast to tracking which seems to be familiar to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning Ciao, Niels
