[scribus] What is Glyphenstauchung?

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Thanks for your answers, Martin and Christoph. The thing is, I tried it 
on a small paragraph, and it changed something, but I couldn't really 
make out what it really does. Furthermore, I don't know how to use the 
three values sensibly as I cannot really make out what their effects are.

 From what you told me, it's kinda default for an automatic function, i. 
e. in contrary to Horizontal Scaling these values only become active 
when Scribus decides so. And does it change the look of the font, narrow 
it for instance (as the name suggests), or does it only put the letters 
nearer to each other?

Regards
Rolf


Am 19.12.2013 09:38, schrieb "Christoph Schäfer":
> 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
>>>
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