Le 09/11/2011 19:06, Joe Zeff a ?crit : > On 11/09/2011 06:03 AM, john Culleton wrote: >> Microtypograpy in TeX will solve the problem without visibly >> stretching just one letter. All letters can be >> stretched/compressed by tiny amounts to take up the slack. > > I'm sure it can. However, a Sefer Torah is written by hand, exactly the same > way it was over a thousand years ago, and > the last line of a verse is always justified (when appropriate) by extending > only the last letter. It's not a matter of > "there's another way to do it," it's a question of can either TeX or Scribus > match the traditional way of filling the > space? And, of course, whoever sets it up has to know when to do it and when > to start the next verse without a paragraph > break, but that's a different issue.
Scribus's property palette can stretch one or any characters up to 400%. And it has to be done by hand ? too ! But 400% might be not enough for some very short lines. JL
