2011/10/27 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> > On 10/27/2011 06:10 AM, JLuc wrote: > >> Le 27/10/2011 11:30, Czarek a ?crit : >> >>> LOL. This has been known for ages. >>>> >>> >>> And now you all see how clerkless I am ... ;-) >>> >> >> I think that you are a wonderfull user, >> and i totally agree with : at this point, usability matters most. >> >> > who cares about it, if it is acceptable enough and users want to put >> best >> > quality out for usability... >> >> Usability, userfriendliness, ergonomie, quality User Interface, >> affordance, ... >> >> > I think it's more important to have some understanding of what makes for a > good outcome of whatever algorithm you are using. If you don't you simply > have some smug attitude that you are using "the best" and by some people's > definition, everything else is inferior. > > I certainly don't consider myself an expert in this. What I look for is an > overall pleasing look to a block of text (i.e., no rivers or other > unintended visual distractions), that there is a limited use of hyphenation > (and especially not several lines with hyphenation one after the other), and > that when hyphenation is used, it is not such that there is no intuitive > sense of what the rest of the word on the next line might be -- this leads > to a small cognitive hitch as you read through some text. One also looks for > awkward hyphenation. > > In John's Scribus PDF (full width): > ... re- > ceived ... > this is very ambiguous. In general, various short syllable breaks, like > in-, de-, re- have so many possible endings. This can be the most difficult > to prevent. > > InDesign: > ... pri- > vate ... > one might consider preventing hyphenation of 2-syllable words to avoid > this. > > Finally, this one in TeX: > ... announc- > ing ... > I have to say, I think this one is quite a mistake. Who would hyphenate > announcing at this point in the word? Note that Scribus has a better > announ-cing. > > So to intentionally belabor this a bit, all of these DTP programs have > issues. None is perfect. Each one requires scanning for unpleasant surprises > or bad choices. >
I have added a comment to an existing bug and a .ui file that I believe would be one way of making Scribus work better for users and help achieve a smoother typographic color. Please let me know what you think and if this is implementable. http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9848 Louis > > Greg > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20111027/fb3f2e11/attachment.html>
