On Saturday 07 September 2013 05:39:41 AM Virgil Arrington wrote: > > No doubt, many publishers are simply publishing the files sent to them that > are created by word processors. L No, they're not, actually. You don't find publishers using MS Word files, which are simply not up to the job.
>I'm reading more and more books that are set without true small > caps or old style numbering. Writers and publishers simply accept the faux > small caps generated by their word processors by shrinking regular upper > case letters complete with the corresponding weakening of the lines that > come from the shrinking. I think the avoidance of true small caps and old style numbering has more to do with the practice of font creators, most of whom omit these features. > However, for me at least, LO's biggest limitation that disqualifies it for > final publishable work is its justification method. It's line-by-line > justification results in too many word space variations from line to line > and too many hyphenated lines. As an experiment, just prepare the same > document using LO and LaTeX (with the Microtype package). The difference in > the justified lines will be quite obvious. Any on-the-fly justification is going to be rough. Do you run Tools > Language > Hyphenation when doing finishing a document? I find that does a lot to improve any alignment, even ragged right. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
