Hi :) I think LaTeX is far more sophisticated for proper professional printing. My guess would be that commercial publishing houses convert from Writer or Word into LaTeX (or something) and then perhaps reapply formatting. Kerning is the least of the problems when you look at a document created in Word. Even so-called Desktop Publishing tools such as Publisher tend to mangle things quite badly. The quality of documents created with Writer is far far higher but it's still unlikely to compete with proper DTP tools such as LaTeX.
As a work-around it might be worth trying out a few different fonts and see which bothers you the least. Most people don't notice the other prolific problems created by MSO, let alone kerning or other spacing issues. It is always possible that someone on this list has some clever way of dealing with kerning or even avoiding it. I have a feeling there is a way so poking around in the "Format" menu might be useful. So, i really am hoping we do get a better answer here Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: e-letter <inp...@gmail.com> >To: users <users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 8:13 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] character kerning > >Readers, > >The classic text 'lorem ipsum...' shows how kerning of characters in >writer is poor (compared to LaTeX anyway): > >Lorem ipsum dolor sit _amet_, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do >eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad >_minim_ _veniam_, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut >aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in >reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla >pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in >culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. > >If the text above is copied into writer, for a font such as >'liberation serif', examples of poor character kerning are indicated >by the underscore (_) character. > >Any way to improve this? > >-- >LO35413 > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
