Character spacing in Lyx
I am using Lyx 1.6.5 on Linux and want to apply, to some text, a character attribute that is variously referred to as character spacing, intercharacter spacing, inter-character spacing, or merely spacing, and possibly other names as well. When used on pairs of characters, it is also referred to as kerning. This attribute is widely used in typography, and is available in both Microsoft Word and in OpenOffice.org Writer. When applied to some text, for example test text, it could spread the text out like this t e s t t e x t. Of course this effect can be imitated as I did here, by inserting spaces between the letters. But doing this changes the text. That is, instead of test text, it would then become t[space]e[space]s[space]t[space][space][space]t[space]e[space]x[space]t. I find this unacceptable. I have searched in the user interface and the manual, and cannot find any information about this. A few cryptic posts I have read refer to a package called soul, but it does not come up when I query for lyx in the package manager (using Fedora 11). I have also heard suggestions about writing a Latex script or something like that. Does anyone know whether this feature is supported and how to apply this attribute to text? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Tom
Character spacing in Lyx
I am using Lyx 1.6.5 on Linux and want to apply, to some text, a character attribute that is variously referred to as character spacing, intercharacter spacing, inter-character spacing, or merely spacing, and possibly other names as well. When used on pairs of characters, it is also referred to as kerning. This attribute is widely used in typography, and is available in both Microsoft Word and in OpenOffice.org Writer. When applied to some text, for example test text, it could spread the text out like this t e s t t e x t. Of course this effect can be imitated as I did here, by inserting spaces between the letters. But doing this changes the text. That is, instead of test text, it would then become t[space]e[space]s[space]t[space][space][space]t[space]e[space]x[space]t. I find this unacceptable. I have searched in the user interface and the manual, and cannot find any information about this. A few cryptic posts I have read refer to a package called soul, but it does not come up when I query for lyx in the package manager (using Fedora 11). I have also heard suggestions about writing a Latex script or something like that. Does anyone know whether this feature is supported and how to apply this attribute to text? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Tom
Character spacing in Lyx
I am using Lyx 1.6.5 on Linux and want to apply, to some text, a character attribute that is variously referred to as "character spacing", "intercharacter spacing", "inter-character spacing", or merely "spacing", and possibly other names as well. When used on pairs of characters, it is also referred to as "kerning". This attribute is widely used in typography, and is available in both Microsoft Word and in OpenOffice.org Writer. When applied to some text, for example "test text", it could spread the text out like this "t e s t t e x t". Of course this effect can be imitated as I did here, by inserting spaces between the letters. But doing this changes the text. That is, instead of "test text", it would then become "t[space]e[space]s[space]t[space][space][space]t[space]e[space]x[space]t". I find this unacceptable. I have searched in the user interface and the manual, and cannot find any information about this. A few cryptic posts I have read refer to a package called "soul", but it does not come up when I query for "lyx" in the package manager (using Fedora 11). I have also heard suggestions about writing a Latex script or something like that. Does anyone know whether this feature is supported and how to apply this attribute to text? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Tom
