[Scribus] OT kerning (or tracking) specs.

[Niels Weckwarth]

> I have a customer who has a designer who has specified the setting of
> certain 
> text headings etc. with the terminology:
> "kerning 250"
> or
>  "kerning 40"
> 
> I am not familiar with this particular terminology. Neither is my InDesign 
> consultant.  It looks like 100 may be normal letter spacing but I am not 
> sure. In any case I would call this tracking rather than kerning.  Since it
> isn't TeX and isn't InDesign teminology I assume it is Quark-speak. 
> 
> Any Quark folk on list who have seen this kind of specification before?   If
> so can you explain what is desired in the two instances shown above? Are 
> these 100th parts of an em or an en?  I hate to look ignorant to my customer
> but my experience is primarily in TeX where fiddling with letter spacing is
> more or less anathema. 
> 

Hi!

Although I'm not familiar with either of the techniques, I would suggest this article
which explains kerning in contrast to tracking which seems to be familiar to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

Ciao,

        Niels