[scribus] What is Glyphenstauchung?

["Christoph Schäfer"]

It's much more than a "cheating tool", quite the contrary. Glyph Extension is an advanced typographic tool that allows for subtly modifying the (horizontal) shapes of glyphs without disrupting the overall layout. It requires a bit of experimentation to get to know how lines can be filled optimally, and ideally, Glyph Extension should only be applied after all other optimisation options, especially hyphenation, have been exhausted.

Christoph

> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2013 um 18:00 Uhr
> Von: "ZASKE Martin" <zm at revue-gugu.org>
> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Betreff: Re: [scribus] What is Glyphenstauchung?
>
> In English it is called Glyph Extension.
> 
> It is a "permission", I believe, where you allow Scribus to abuse (or
> stretch or squish) the actual characters of text for needs of justification.
> 
> To see it operate, create a text box and type very little text and then
> opt for align text justified or even forced justified. If you set your
> new toy to the maxes and pick a huge font size, you will see the
> stretching nicely. Enjoy. (This looks like a cheating tool for desperate
> layout staff; still nice to have, nod to our developers.)
> 
> fwiw
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> On 18.12.2013 17:23, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> > In the style managing dialog, I find Glyphenstauchung (sorry, don't know
> > what it is in English locale) and some values the meaning of which isn't
> > clear to me. On the font tab, I find Horizontal Scaling - this seems to
> > be a different thing though.
> > 
> > Can somebody here explain me what that is - or point me to a wiki page
> > or link that can enlighten me?
> > 
> > Thanks so much!
> > 
> > Rolf
> > 
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