Since 'liberation serif' is a font that most people outside of the
LO/Linux world would not be using, I think you should look into a more
common font used by publishing houses. I would look into changing the
fonts used and see which one works best for your needs. If you are
dealing with a publisher, ask which fonts they use.
I am a font guy, or use to be. I have collected over 14 GB of font
files, but I have a core set of fonts that I place on every system that
I own. These are the ones I use the most over the years.
Right now, I am reading a hard cover book that has a different font than
the paper-back font of the previous version in that series. The
kerneling and line spacing is much different than the paperback books.
So, with that in mind, you will need to know what the "publication" will
look like and use the best font that works for it. If a publisher uses
a specific set of fonts, use them. If not, then it is up to you to
choose the best font for the document. I sometimes take a paragraph and
repeat it over and over again and then make each paragraph a different
font. I then take it to friends who help me decide which font works the
best for them. After that, I take the final choices and make 2-3 page
examples of the text with those fonts at the size and page format that
the document will be published. Then which one is best, I use.
Professionals tend to do something like this and then stick with a small
core of fonts that work the best for their publications and their
different page size.
Since each proportional font is a little different and their kerneling
aspect seems to be different from others, you mush go through some
process to select the best font for your documents. There are thousands
of fonts that look like Times Roman, each just a little different. Once
you find and test the fonts, you then keep the best ones for your work.
The hard part is the testing of each of them to get the best ones. That
is why I suggested asking the publisher[s], if possible, which font[s]
they prefer to use, since they would have done such visual font tests
before and chosen the best ones.
On 02/05/2013 04:37 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
I think LaTeX is far more sophisticated for proper professional printing. My
guess would be that commercial publishing houses convert from Writer or Word
into LaTeX (or something) and then perhaps reapply formatting. Kerning is the
least of the problems when you look at a document created in Word. Even
so-called Desktop Publishing tools such as Publisher tend to mangle things
quite badly. The quality of documents created with Writer is far far higher
but it's still unlikely to compete with proper DTP tools such as LaTeX.
As a work-around it might be worth trying out a few different fonts and see
which bothers you the least. Most people don't notice the other prolific
problems created by MSO, let alone kerning or other spacing issues.
It is always possible that someone on this list has some clever way of dealing with
kerning or even avoiding it. I have a feeling there is a way so poking around in the
"Format" menu might be useful. So, i really am hoping we do get a better
answer here
Regards from
Tom :)
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Subject: [libreoffice-users] character kerning
Readers,
The classic text 'lorem ipsum...' shows how kerning of characters in
writer is poor (compared to LaTeX anyway):
Lorem ipsum dolor sit _amet_, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do
eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad
_minim_ _veniam_, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut
aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in
reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla
pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in
culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
If the text above is copied into writer, for a font such as
'liberation serif', examples of poor character kerning are indicated
by the underscore (_) character.
Any way to improve this?
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