On Thursday 25 September 2008 06:12:52 pm avox wrote: > John Culleton-3 wrote: > > On Saturday 20 September 2008 02:16:13 pm avox wrote: > >> John Culleton-3 wrote: > >> > ... > >> > And things like hanging punctuation, > >> > microtypography and so on are just beyond the reach of Scribus > >> > or any similar product. > >> > >> Funny you'd say that, I implemented hanging punctuation and > >> glyph extension in 1.3.4. Pierre implemented OTF features in > >> FontMatrix and I have a prototype > >> of a paragraph layouter for Scribus. And footnotes and > >> widow/orphan control are definitely on our todo list. So I > >> wouldn't say that's out of our reach. > > > > Interesting. How does one apply hanging punctuation? I have a > > recent version of Scribus 1.3.5 up on a Debian partition. > > It's called "optical margins" in Scribus. That moves punctuation > 50% - 70% into the margin and also applies a moderate margin > kerning at the right margin > (usually only visible with 'r' and 'f' characters). > > I followed the values from pdfTeX for punctuation and re-use the > kerning pairs > with period for the right side (imagine ending each line with a > period, kern the line, > than justify the lines such that the periods are aligned, then hide > the periods). > I couldn't find a similar trick at the left side; all tries looked > worse than the > version without margin kerning. > > There was a proposal to attach margin kerning values to the space > character, but > AFAIK there aren't many fonts which follow that. > > /Andreas
Is this part of Scribus 1.3.5 today? Given a text block how do I activate the optical margins? must I do it manually? Is it a value in story editor? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
