From: Rik Kabel <context@rik.users.panix.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Character and word spacing
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 14:15:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53877934.5020302@rik.users.panix.com> (raw)
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I am setting some text from Geoffrey Dowding's /Finer Points in the
Spacing and Arrangement of Type/. I am trying to set it using his
recommendations. For those not familiar with his book, the key point is
that he promotes extremely tight spacing to achieve a uniform density
across the page in the belief that this leads to a pleasing presentation
and improved readability.
Among his recommendations is that an opening single quote together with
the space preceding it should take up no more space than a normal word
space, and similarly following a closing single quote; that the space
after some punctuation be minimized (some of his commas appear to have
perhaps just a hairspace, following them); that the space between
punctuation and letters be adjusted according to the shape of the
letter; and that 'and' be replaced by '&' as necessary to improve word
spacing. While this last is probably beyond the scope of ConTeXt, I am
hoping that the first few might be managed through
\definecharacterspacing, \setupcharacterspacing, and \setcharacterspacing.
Alas, I have found no documentation on this set of commands, and what I
see in the source is opaque.
If you have pointers to the details of these commands, or other
suggestions for such typographic exercises, please let me know.
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Rik Kabel
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2014-05-29 18:15 Rik Kabel [this message]
2014-05-29 23:29 ` Hans Hagen
2014-05-31 14:14 ` Rik Kabel
2014-05-31 23:17 ` Hans Hagen
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