Vous (Craig Ringer) avez ?crit?: > F.Harr at softhome.net wrote: > > Call 'em quads. A one-em quad should NOT be typeface dependent, but > > font size dependent. A quad that's one em wide would be twelve points > > in a line or twelve point text, twenty points wide in a line of > > twenty-point text etc. > > If it's not typeface dependent then it may look very strange when used > with condensed or expanded faces. Using the face's basic space as a > guide for the others should address that at least to an extent. >
Here I think we should consider to split the problem into 2 "cases". First we want a collection of spaces which size is a function of the font size or not. Second we would like that type designers takes time to provide us with a full range of spaces well fitted with the font shape. First would be easy enough but second can?t be so easily computed --- but we could imagine that user could imput values for missing spaces. Besides this, we should also associate a stretch factor to each class of space, etc. Finally a lot to do, exciting :) -- Pierre Marchand
