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Subject: Re: [office] proposal; Amend fo:letter-spacing
Thomas Zander wrote: > The difference is less about the actual difference in layouting (though it is > important) its more about the different way of using. (UseCase) > A common goal the user has in mind when he adjusts the letter-spacing in > typesetting is to make it possible to make a word fit on a line, to avoid > hyphenation for example. > In percent based letter spacing effectively adjusts the width of the whole > selected region in, well, a percentage of the effective width. > So if you have a sentence that has a text width of 100 and you apply a 97% > letter spacing to it the text will end up being 97. Irregardless of the > amount of characters on the line. I can understand to your usecase, but I don't think that such requirement should be expressed using fo:letter-spacing as this would break "compatibility" with XSL-FO. Moreover, your usecase seems more as a constraint on layout algorithm which can result in modification of interletter space, but not vice versa. Maybe some completely new attribute like visual-compression="97" would be more appropriate. > Note that I'm not saying that one method is good and one method is bad. Qt4 > supports both, and from a user perspective I think KOffice should use the > percent based one. Its just easier to use and more in line with what users > want to achieve. It's questionable. For example, I have never specified letter-spacing using percentages before, I have been always specifying length directly. > Thanks for your feedback, I didn't realize there are more typography lovers on > this list ;) Yep, I have spent my childhood with TeX ;-D -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member ------------------------------------------------------------------
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