[scribus] Kerning redux

[avox]

John Jason Jordan-2 wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:15:54 -0500
> "William F. Maddock" <billsey at earthlink.net> dijo:
> 
> 
>> > If no character is selected it still kerns nothing. Henry Peters
>> > reports the same thing, but he and I are both using Ubuntu 9.0.4, so
>> > maybe that is why we are getting different results.
> 
>> Not using diacriticals, but I just tested it out on Ubuntu 9.04 with
>> scribus 1.3.5 and I only had to place the cursor between the two
>> characters to be kerned (page layout mode, I guess you'd call it; just
>> not using the story editor), and was then able to adjust the kerning of
>> the two characters surrounding the cursor. I also noted that, at least
>> for Aldine 721, the auto-kerning worked just fine.
> 
> Ah. An additional insight. I was using Story Editor, not editing
> directly in the text frame. I rarely edit in the text frame because it
> is too slow and I can't figure out how to apply all the features that I
> can in Story Editor. It was in Story Editor that I was unable to apply
> kerning without selecting character(s).
> 

That makes sense.

Btw, when entered in the Story Editor, diacriticals are replaced by their
composed character before Scribus sees them, so it's not possible to kern a
diacritical relativ to its base character.

I don't know how your system behaves when editing directly on the canvas,
but a common complaint is that Scribus does *not* apply diacritics.

/Andreas
sees them, so it's not possible to
-- 
View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Kerning-redux-tp25043167p25058892.html
Sent from the Scribus New mailing list archive at Nabble.com.