On 2010-09-02 18:03, David Kastrup wrote:
You could easily overlap multiple dash glyphs in order to arrive at
arbitrary lengths.
This won't work for fonts with uncommonly designed dashes, say one
slightly slanted to the top, like a / with less height.
So what?
Perhaps scale horizontally?
Ruins the design of the end points. And actually would be rather bad
for the kind of "slightly slanted" because the slant would become
unrecognizable as a feature of the dash and instead look like an
accidental misalignment with other horizontal lines.
You might actually be better off with overlaps (implemented as dashing
with slightly negative distance). Or with not using such a font at
all. Which is not likely anyway.
True, true. Didn't think about this.
I'm not sure the problem exists, though - in the situation Dmytro
mentioned, hyphens only get shortened. Then, scaling is an option while
overlapping is not applicable. The equivalent approch for shortening
would be to cut out a piece in the middle of the dash. Both sound bad,
IMHO. Hm.
@ David: What I'm not quite sure about yet: Do you - in general - think
the font glyph should or should not be used?
Cheers,
Alexander
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