Steve -- On Thu, Mar 27, 2014, Steve Izma wrote: > I'm puzzled too. Some discussions I have had lately with other > typographers indicate a general support for letterspacing. One > font designer even suggested that there is a commonly accepted > limit to the amount of kerning or morticing -- unfortunately, I > forget what he said, so I'll have to search for such a guideline. > For type around 10 pt., I try to keep it around .1 pts. Do others > have guidelines? Peter, what were your parameters in this > example?
No more than '.tkf \n[.f] 1 .4 1 .4' (mom: '.EW .4') No less than '.tkf \n[.f] 1 -.2 1 -.2' (mom: '.RW .2') Generally speaking, the eye is less aware of loose letterspacing than tight. > I'm really not interested in setting type ragged any more. Funny, I enjoy the challenge. And the results, when it's used in the right context (*not* columns). A good piece of rag text has a graceful informality that's impossible to achieve with justified text. > This also raises the question of whether a paragraph-at-once > algorithm could handle such single-line adjustments without being > unwieldly or slow. I've never been able to get this kind of > precision in TeX, as I've mentioned before; it's much faster to > do it in groff. I'm addressing this in another post. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
