Thomas Zander wrote:
> In ODF the letter spacing attribute specifies the amount of space between
> letters. This is the way that XSL does things and this is fine for things
> like webpages.
I don't think that authors of XSL-FO will agree with your statement
about XSL-FO being for webpages ;-)
> Unfortunately for DTP applications this is not really what is expected. The
> spacing between characters in DTP is not a static value, it is a percentage
> value. Basically when you have an 'm' the spacing adjustment is wider than
> when you have an 'i'.
Well I haven't seen this behaviour in any typesetting system I know.
Letter spacing is spread evenly between letters. Otherwise, typesetting
will look even more ugly (if we assume that letter spacing usually look
enough ugly itself).
> In KOffice we intend to use the percentage based letter spacing adjustment and
> we were surprised reading the spec (and trying out OOo) that this is not
> possible. Would it be possible to adjust the spec to also allow percentage
> based values?
I'm probably missing something, but what this percentage value should
mean. If it is used, how is space between letters calculated?
Also please note that XSL-FO actually provides means for specifying
letter-space in terms of range using letter-spacing.mininum="1pt" and
letter-spacing.maximum="3pt". But to my knowledge ODF doesn't inherited
this feature of XSL-FO.
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