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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:28:29 +0200
- Reply-To: Era Eriksson <reriksso@CC.HELSINKI.FI>
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- From: Era Eriksson <reriksso@CC.HELSINKI.FI>
- Subject: Hyphenation and kerning
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- The below text was previously posted to comp.text.desktop. Apologies to
- anyone who has seen this before.
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- I do pretty much work in PageMaker and have repeatedly been annoyed
- at the hyphenation algorithms. Probably a lot of the aggravation
- comes from the Swedish implementation I'm using, but I thought I
- might as well throw out a query to the Net.
- Namely, if and when anybody has found better values than the default
- ones for hyphenation zone etc, I sure would like to see them. I'm
- mainly working with column widths around 50 mm (that's roughly 2 inches,
- for the measurably impaired ;-) with 9 pt body text and my main trouble
- comes from the fact that the automated settings just don't work
- "automatically" -- a lot of lines that look just OK on a WYSIWYG Mac
- screen (w/ ATM) are marked as "problem" lines by PageMaker, whereas
- lines I'd never want to see in print are never flagged by the same
- algorithm (and sometimes I even have to +force+ the program to insert a
- hyphen; it won't break the line even if I insert a command-hyphen
- [discretionary hyphen]).
- I would probably like to edit the kerning info on some fonts if I
- really start working on this. If anybody knows anything at all
- about PageMaker's kerning system, I'd like to hear from you.
-
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- era eriksson .obMantra: Fest alla dagar .obDiscl: I rarely know what I'm doing
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