[scribus] The Scribus target - a question for the developers

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 25 September 2008 06:12:52 pm avox wrote:
> John Culleton-3 wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 September 2008 02:16:13 pm avox wrote:
> >> John Culleton-3 wrote:
> >> > ...
> >> > And things like hanging punctuation,
> >> > microtypography and so on are just beyond the reach of Scribus
> >> > or any similar product.
> >>
> >> Funny you'd say that, I implemented hanging punctuation and
> >> glyph extension in 1.3.4. Pierre implemented OTF features in
> >> FontMatrix and I have a prototype
> >> of a paragraph layouter for Scribus. And footnotes and
> >> widow/orphan control are definitely on our todo list. So I
> >> wouldn't say that's out of our reach.
> >
> > Interesting. How does one apply hanging punctuation? I have a
> > recent version of Scribus 1.3.5 up on a Debian partition.
>
> It's called "optical margins" in Scribus. That moves punctuation
> 50% - 70% into the margin and also applies a moderate margin
> kerning at the right margin
> (usually only visible with 'r' and 'f' characters).
>
> I followed the values from pdfTeX for punctuation and re-use the
> kerning pairs
> with period for the right side (imagine ending each line with a
> period, kern the line,
> than justify the lines such that the periods are aligned, then hide
> the periods).
> I couldn't find a similar trick at the left side; all tries looked
> worse than the
> version without margin kerning.
>
> There was a proposal to attach margin kerning values to the space
> character, but
> AFAIK there aren't many fonts which follow that.
>
> /Andreas

Is this part of Scribus 1.3.5 today? Given a text block how do I 
activate the optical margins? must I do it manually? Is it a value in 
story editor?


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