Call 'em quads. A one-em quad should NOT be typeface dependent, but font size dependent. A quad that's one em wide would be twelve points in a line or twelve point text, twenty points wide in a line of twenty-point text etc.
Gregory Pittman writes: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
