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Re: too small inter-word spacing
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Michael Piotrowski |
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Re: too small inter-word spacing |
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Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:17:14 +0200 |
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On 2008-09-08, "Martti Haukijärvi" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> recent documents: do you not see incidences of way too tight spacing
>> between words? do you feel the spacing is on average a) optimal, b)
>> to loose, c) to tight?
>
> Most of spacing is OK, but often (a couple of times in every page)
> spacing is too tight. This is visible especially at the end of
> sentences, dots being too close to next word. Perhaps this is problem
> with those languages which have a lot of long words, like Finnish? In
> English words are shorter and hyphenation seems not to be used so
> routinely as in Finnish, for example. Perhaps the hyphenation penalty
> should be lowered for such languages.
Yes, I have a similar impression: Spacing for English is ok, but for
German (also known for its long words) it is often too tight. I've
therefore frequently used something like @InitialSpace {compress +0.2s}
(as I've posted earlier); I now know its not a general solution, but it
helped in my cases.
I'm only chiming in here because I just yesterday had a case (in a
German letter) where interword spacing was too tight; for example, "bei
der" (at the) looked like "beider" (of both). I agree with Martti that
this is probably an interaction with hyphenation; the problem was solved
by setting a hyphenation point in the last word of the line.
Greetings
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Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <address@hidden>
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- Re: too small inter-word spacing, (continued)
- Re: too small inter-word spacing, Jeff Kingston, 2008/09/04
- Re: too small inter-word spacing, Joerg van den Hoff, 2008/09/04
- Re: too small inter-word spacing, Greg A. Woods, 2008/09/05
- Re: too small inter-word spacing, Joerg van den Hoff, 2008/09/05
- Re: too small inter-word spacing, Greg A. Woods, 2008/09/07
- Re: too small inter-word spacing, Martti Haukijärvi, 2008/09/08
- Re: too small inter-word spacing, Joerg van den Hoff, 2008/09/08
- Re: too small inter-word spacing, Mark Summerfield, 2008/09/08
- Re: too small inter-word spacing,
Michael Piotrowski <=
Re: too small inter-word spacing, Jeff Kingston, 2008/09/12