Re: Feature request 'microspacing'

From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 17:16:47 GMT

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    On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 11:10, Erlend Nagel wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > there is one thing (aside from tables support :-) that I would love
    > to see in Abiword 1.2 which is support for 'microspacing'.
    >
    > What I mean is the ability to offset characters by single dots
    > (ideally printer resolution, but some other small unit may work just
    > as well). This way very sophisticated typographical features can be
    > achieved, for example in very large text (posters) and to create text
    > that climbs or is even rotated (poems).
    >
    > I used to work sometimes with a wordprocessor called Papyrus that had
    > this particular feature and really loved it. It would set Abiword
    > apart from the crowd. And when the display routines are being
    > rewritten, it is best to consider this to avoid having to rewrite
    > them all the time.
    >
    > Are there others that would love to have this feature?

    Please put this request in bugzilla (at bugzilla.abisource.com) so that
    people will remember it.

    Thanks 

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