On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:42:27 +0200 Czarek <czarek at oferuje.pl> wrote:
> > AFAIK the key missing element is the paragraph at a time > > justification as opposed to line at at time justification. > > explain... > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > > _______________________________________________________ > Unlimited Disk, Data Transfer, PHP/MySQL Domain Hosting > http://www.doteasy.com In most DTP programs the current line only is considered before any line breaking, hyphenation and word spacing decisions are made. In Tex and InDesign the entire paragraph is considered before any line breaking, hyphenation and word spacing decisions are made. An awkward situation in the middle of the paragraph might change decisions made on the first or second line. The net result is fewer hyphenations and more uniform interword gaps. I have a file http://wexfordpress.com/tex/compare.pdf that shows the same passage taken from "A Tale of Two Cities" as typeset by various DTP and word processing programs. The sample set shows the text set at 4.5 in measure followed by a sample set at 3 inch measure, a more difficult task. After publication of my paper Pete Masterson contributed another set of InDesign samples, superior to the original set. I patched these at the end of the original file. Observations: The TeX short line sample requires one less hyphen (5) than the Scribus short line sample (6), and fitted two more words onto the page. The OO short line sample required 7 hyphens. The Masterson InDesign short line sample required 5 hyphens. The other InDesign sample required 7 hyphens. Some designers are better than others :<) -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
