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Subject: Re: [office] proposal; Amend fo:letter-spacing
Thomas Zander wrote: > In ODF the letter spacing attribute specifies the amount of space between > letters. This is the way that XSL does things and this is fine for things > like webpages. I don't think that authors of XSL-FO will agree with your statement about XSL-FO being for webpages ;-) > Unfortunately for DTP applications this is not really what is expected. The > spacing between characters in DTP is not a static value, it is a percentage > value. Basically when you have an 'm' the spacing adjustment is wider than > when you have an 'i'. Well I haven't seen this behaviour in any typesetting system I know. Letter spacing is spread evenly between letters. Otherwise, typesetting will look even more ugly (if we assume that letter spacing usually look enough ugly itself). > In KOffice we intend to use the percentage based letter spacing adjustment and > we were surprised reading the spec (and trying out OOo) that this is not > possible. Would it be possible to adjust the spec to also allow percentage > based values? I'm probably missing something, but what this percentage value should mean. If it is used, how is space between letters calculated? Also please note that XSL-FO actually provides means for specifying letter-space in terms of range using letter-spacing.mininum="1pt" and letter-spacing.maximum="3pt". But to my knowledge ODF doesn't inherited this feature of XSL-FO. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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