Re: too small inter-word spacing

[Greg A. Woods]

On 4-Sep-08, at 7:31 PM, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:

> On Sep 05 2008 (Fri,  7:51), Jeff Kingston wrote:
> > Joerg van den Hoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > and as an accidental observation: if one increases the space width  
> > > to
> > > something nonsensical such as 1250, the postscript output does no  
> > > longer
> > > maintain the correct A4 pagewidth of 595 points (I think), but,  
> > > for this
> > > value of 1250, the pagewidth is increased substantially, namely to  
> > > 765.
> > > where the text still occupies the original space, but the right  
> > > page margin
> > > seems increased. probably not important, but
> > > is this possibly indication of a bug somewhere?
> >
> > I don't know.  It does sound strange.  If you think it's worth
> > following up, post a small example and I'll look into it.
>
> I tried it with arbitrary text snippets. here it happens every time if
> the output is viewed with `gv'.

GhostView almost always produces horrible inter-word and even inter- 
letter spacing for me (at least on X11 displays), at least for lout  
_and_ groff output but perhaps other generators too, and usually  
regardless of which font faces or sizes are used (though some are far  
worse than others).

The real test is how it looks on the printed page -- especially from a  
"real" PostScript(tm) printer.

I never trust the gv preview for any alignment or spacing issues.

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                                                Greg A. Woods
                                                <address@hidden>

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