Re: Margin kerning

[Michael Piotrowski]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Intuitively, I doubt applying margin-kerning to more than one character
> would be a good idea, because it may lead to having characters too much
> protruded.  Likewise, it is debatable whether ellipsis should be
> margin-kerned (as in the small example I posted).

I agree.  In my test document it actually happens twice in one
paragraph that the line ends with an ellipsis, and the ellipses in the
margin look strange and might even be misleading.

> In [1], the author advocates that each glyph should have its own
> "protrusion factor" determining how much it should be shifted
> outside the margin.  But then, this is getting more complicated,
> especially since AFM don't provide such information...

It might be interesting how this is handled in InDesign, but I don't
have easy access to a Windows PC or Mac to install the demo version.

A per-document user-editable table (i.e., not per-font) might already
provide more than enough customizability.

Greetings

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