Sorry Christoph and developers, I did not want to make it sound in a negative way. Like you say, it is about "filling lines optimally".
We would need to ask a font developer what he or she thinks about "modifying their characters" for the purpose of layout. I remember years ago about layout books having nasty things to say about those consumer-level pseudo-italics tools which would alter characters in a rather non-so-subtle way... Now stretching laterally or slimming will depend on the character. Guess a hyphen will cope better than an "o". I often tell people with conviction that Scribus gives the layouter "total" control over what happens on the page; in contrast to Word which people know and which tends to want "to know better" than the user. So I do appreciate all the tools available. Each user will know what suits his or her audience. So again, no offence was meant. I hope Rolf can use it for whatever he has going at the moment, Martin On 19.12.2013 09:38, "Christoph Sch?fer" wrote: > It's much more than a "cheating tool", quite the contrary. Glyph > Extension is an advanced typographic tool that allows for subtly > modifying the (horizontal) shapes of glyphs without disrupting the > overall layout. It requires a bit of experimentation to get to know > how lines can be filled optimally, and ideally, Glyph Extension > should only be applied after all other optimisation options, > especially hyphenation, have been exhausted. > > Christoph > >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2013 um 18:00 Uhr Von: "ZASKE >> Martin" <zm at revue-gugu.org> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net Betreff: >> Re: [scribus] What is Glyphenstauchung? >> >> In English it is called Glyph Extension. >> >> It is a "permission", I believe, where you allow Scribus to abuse >> (or stretch or squish) the actual characters of text for needs of >> justification. >> >> To see it operate, create a text box and type very little text and >> then opt for align text justified or even forced justified. If you >> set your new toy to the maxes and pick a huge font size, you will >> see the stretching nicely. Enjoy. (This looks like a cheating tool >> for desperate layout staff; still nice to have, nod to our >> developers.) >> >> fwiw >> >> Martin >> >> >> On 18.12.2013 17:23, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: >>> In the style managing dialog, I find Glyphenstauchung (sorry, >>> don't know what it is in English locale) and some values the >>> meaning of which isn't clear to me. On the font tab, I find >>> Horizontal Scaling - this seems to be a different thing though. >>> >>> Can somebody here explain me what that is - or point me to a wiki >>> page or link that can enlighten me? >>> >>> Thanks so much! >>> >>> Rolf >>> >>> ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your >>> options or unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: >>> http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net >>> >> >> >> -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? >> 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95 >> >> ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your >> options or unsubscribe: >> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: >> http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net > > ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your options > or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See > also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net > -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
