Hedley Finger wrote: > > Craig: > >> F.Harr at softhome.net wrote: >> >>> Then what do you do? All I want is an em-space, it's not like I'm >>> asking for a fractur Euro-sign. Could this capacity be added? You >>> could call it a "quad" space and give the user the choice of making it >>> as many ems or ens as they wanted. >>> >> >> It does seem like something that'd be fairly reasonable to emulate based >> on the width of the normal space if the font doesn't provide the >> enhanced spaces. >> >> This might be a good item to file in the bug tracker with severity >> 'feature' so it doesn't get forgotten. >> > > Or, if a particular font didn't have the full range of typographic > spaces, have a default full-Unicode font shipped with Scribus and > substitute its typographic spaces, e.g. em quad, en quad, thick, mid, > thin, and hair. Then, if the preferred font is changed and it has > typo spaces, replace the default substitutes with the proper spaces.
It's a bit more tricky than that, since spaces, like other glyphs, are font-dependent, so they don't have a set size. Perhaps best to create some other kind of space(s), set in Preferences as a percentage of font size. What to call them is unclear, but I don't think they should be named an em-space (for example) if they're not a true em-space. Greg
