In a message dated 2009.09.25 10:58 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote:
... When you create a paragraph style, or modify an existing one, there's a tab in the dialogue labelled "Position". Near the bottom of this tab is a heading "Spacing" that covers two lists and a check box. The first list has options "Default", "Expanded" and "Condensed". If you choose other than Default you may now select, in the second list, a number of *points* (you may enter decimal numbers such as 3.5).
Yes, this is the same "Position" tab as in character styles, with the same options and AFAICS the same effect [and an example of apparent conceptual sloppiness that gnaws at me]. It is the character spacing to which I referred earlier:
... OO recognizes, and tries to encapsulate, structural entities. With respect to text, those entities seem to be characters, lines, paragraphs, and OO provides formatting capabilities to independently adjust spacing of each of those entities.
But character spacing is not word spacing:
... there is no comparable treatment for words or sentences - no recognition of words or sentences as structural elements, and no independent spacing adjustments between words or between sentences.
Sorry to be repetitive or pedantic, but is that distinction clear?
The check box lets you choose to specify "Pair kerning" - you probably know what that means ...
It's just a typographic convention to provide special (reduced) spacing for certain pairs of characters, like "fl".
Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Am I even in the right forest?
:-) ! See above - but I appreciate the help in thinking this through. John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
