Re: [office] multiple spans

[Andreas J Guelzow <andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>]

Hi Michael,

I am just working from the ODF Standard and was looking for a property that does not just affect a single character. (In Gnumeric you cannot specify kerning between characters, therefore so far I have not yet to worry about implementation of this.)

    Andreas

On 2021-03-01 12:17 p.m., Michael Stahl wrote:

>       
>       hi Andreas,
>       
>       
>       On 01.03.21 19:38, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
>       
> > Hi,
> >         
> >         
> >         If I compare
> >         
> >         
> >         <text:p style-name="styleA">AB<text:span
> >         style-name="styleB">CD<text:span
> > style-name="styleA">EF</text:span>GH</text:span>IJ</text:p>
> >         
> >         with
> >         
> >         
> >         <text:p style-name="styleA">AB<text:span
> >         style-name="styleB">CD</text:span><text:span
> >         style-name="styleA">EF</text:span><text:span
> >         style-name="styleB">GH</text:span>IJ</text:p>
> >         
> >         
> >         where styleA includes style:letter-kerning=TRUE and styleB
> >         includes style:letter-kerning=FALSE
> >         
> >         
> >         Then I would think that in the first case there is no letter
> >         kerning between D and E but in the second case there is letter
> >         kerning between D and E.
> >         
> >       
>       
>       how do you implement the second case? you only get letter kerning
>       between 2 characters if you send both of them to the text shaping
>       together, but you can't do that if they have different formatting
>       or a different font, which may well be the case between styleA and
>       styleB.
>       
>       
>       in LO Writer, the only text-properties attribute that *doesn't*
>       prevent kerning at span breaks is the dreaded officeooo:rsid
>       extension, and that was a pain to implement...
>       
>       
>       regards,
>       
>       Âmichael
>       
>       
>       
>

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