Re: too small inter-word spacing

[Michael Piotrowski]

On 2008-09-04, Joerg van den Hoff <address@hidden> wrote:

>>> For example I have used
>>> 
>>>   @InitialSpace {compress +0.25s}
>>> 
>>> for some documents where I found the interword spacing too tight.
>
> is this somewhere in the docs? I did'nt find it.

@InitialSpace is documented, but I'm not sure whether the width
adjustment option is described.

> and it seems not to work for me at all: is this request honoured only
> at the beginning of a document or also interspersed with the text?

You use it like other @Initial... options, e.g.:

  @Document
    @InitialFont {Palatino Base 12p}
    @InitialSpace {compress +0.25s}
  //
  @Text @Begin
  ...

Note, however, Jeff's comment on the effect of @InitialSpace:

>> This works in simple cases, but it has the problem that Lout returns
>> to the width of a space character every time there is a change of font.

I wasn't aware of that.

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