On Wednesday 22 December 2010 15:24:57 Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > On Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2010 21:09:13 John Culleton wrote: > > This article states that various improvements in justification > > have been borrowed from pdftex starting with 1.3.4. My question > > is: how do I activate these extensions in e.g.1.3.9 or even > > 1.5.0? > > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Better_Justification_in_1.3.4 > > These are optical margins and glyph extension. They are available > via the Properties Palette and via Styles. > > Christoph > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus Thanks. I never made the connection between "Advanced Features" on the style setup screen and the features I regularly use for TeX. I assume that optical alignment is automatically applied? I don't see a setting for it on the style setup screen.
Now if we can just borrow the paragraph-at-a-time justification code from TeX Scribus will be in the top rank of justified text layout engines. -- John Culleton, typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
