>From: T. R. Valentine >Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 11:23 AM >To: LibreOffice-list >Subject: [libreoffice-users] spacing after punctuation > >As a follow-up to our earlier discussion of one versus two spaces >following a full point/full stop/period, I offer the following passage >from /About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography/ by David Jury >(typos mine):
The book most often relied on by professional typesetters (for English) is Robert Bringhurst: http://tinyurl.com/laus5fb The two most capable programs for typesetting are TeX and Adobe InDesign. For professional line endings and to avoid rivers Adobe copied the multiline paragraph composition engine from TeX. TeX is free and open source, so it was easy to do. I wish LibreOffice could do the same. However, Adobe added 'optical character kerning' to InDesign, a feature not found in any other software. Optical character kerning works by disregarding the metrics built into the font, including the kerning pairs. Instead, it calculates the square area between each letter, taking into account the curves and shapes of the letters, then spaces the letters with equal area. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
