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Between-character kerning for justified lines
I've looked on the Web for answers but have not yet found anything.
Using Word 2002 SP3 on WinXP Pro. In narrow fully-justified paragraphs, body text often contains wide gaps between words. I've improved this somewhat by turning on "Do full justification like Wordperfect 6.x for Windows," but it's still not right. "Professional" type publishing programs add whitespace/kerning between characters within words to lessen the amount of whitespace between words. Is it possible to get Word to do this automatically? TIA, Karl Perry |
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Word's typography is a pig's breakfast at the best of times. If you need
good typography, Word is not the program to use. "Karl Perry" wrote in message ... I've looked on the Web for answers but have not yet found anything. Using Word 2002 SP3 on WinXP Pro. In narrow fully-justified paragraphs, body text often contains wide gaps between words. I've improved this somewhat by turning on "Do full justification like Wordperfect 6.x for Windows," but it's still not right. "Professional" type publishing programs add whitespace/kerning between characters within words to lessen the amount of whitespace between words. Is it possible to get Word to do this automatically? TIA, Karl Perry |
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Greetings--
Maybe you could try using expanded character spacing. -- Cheers Robert On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:14:27 -0700, Karl Perry wrote: I've looked on the Web for answers but have not yet found anything. Using Word 2002 SP3 on WinXP Pro. In narrow fully-justified paragraphs, body text often contains wide gaps between words. I've improved this somewhat by turning on "Do full justification like Wordperfect 6.x for Windows," but it's still not right. "Professional" type publishing programs add whitespace/kerning between characters within words to lessen the amount of whitespace between words. Is it possible to get Word to do this automatically? TIA, Karl Perry |
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"Jezebel" wrote in message ... Word's typography is a pig's breakfast at the best of times. If you need good typography, Word is not the program to use. For the kinds of things I generally do, Word does fine - I don't need great typography. However, it would be nice for narrow columns to look nice to - hence my question. Unfortunately I don't really have an alternative at the moment. Karl |
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"Robert" wrote in message ... Greetings-- Maybe you could try using expanded character spacing. Yeah - but that applies to all characters in a selection, and has to be controlled manually. I'm looking for a setting that will make Word be more intelligent for an entire document so I don't have to do things by hand. These are proposals, not brochures. They don't, in general, need to be a typographer's dream - I just would prefer them not to be so much of a nightmare. Looks like I'm stuck with what Word gives us. Karl |
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The best you can do, using Word for narrow columns, is not to justify at
all. Ragged right has been proved to be more readable in any case, particular if the justification is poor, which with Word it always is. "Karl Perry" wrote in message ... "Jezebel" wrote in message ... Word's typography is a pig's breakfast at the best of times. If you need good typography, Word is not the program to use. For the kinds of things I generally do, Word does fine - I don't need great typography. However, it would be nice for narrow columns to look nice to - hence my question. Unfortunately I don't really have an alternative at the moment. Karl |
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Greetings--
Expanded character spacing can be part of a style. If you make it part of the document Normal style, it will be applied to all of it. -- Cheers Robert On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:48:07 -0700, Karl Perry wrote: "Robert" wrote in message ... Greetings-- Maybe you could try using expanded character spacing. Yeah - but that applies to all characters in a selection, and has to be controlled manually. I'm looking for a setting that will make Word be more intelligent for an entire document so I don't have to do things by hand. These are proposals, not brochures. They don't, in general, need to be a typographer's dream - I just would prefer them not to be so much of a nightmare. Looks like I'm stuck with what Word gives us. Karl |
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"Robert" wrote in message ... Greetings-- Expanded character spacing can be part of a style. If you make it part of the document Normal style, it will be applied to all of it. -- That's why it doesn't help for this purpose. |
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Greetings--
If you want to restrict expanded character spacing to a specific type of paragraph, it is as easy to create any appropriate style with this feature and apply it to the relevant paragraphs. Where is the problem? I have personally used this trick quite successfully. It does serve this purpose. -- Cheers Robert On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:12:18 +1000, Jezebel wrote: "Robert" wrote in message ... Greetings-- Expanded character spacing can be part of a style. If you make it part of the document Normal style, it will be applied to all of it. -- That's why it doesn't help for this purpose. |
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The problem is that for typographic purposes the expansion is specific to
the *line* not the paragraph. One of the objectives in typography is to minimise the variation in the width of the spaces between words. This can be difficult if you are justifying to a narrow measure -- if there is just one space within the line, it has to take up ALL the justification space for the line. One typographic method for dealing with the problem is to cheat a little and increase the character spacing *in that line* -- but not in other lines in the same paragraph. Top-end typography programs do this automatically. "Robert" wrote in message .. . Greetings-- If you want to restrict expanded character spacing to a specific type of paragraph, it is as easy to create any appropriate style with this feature and apply it to the relevant paragraphs. Where is the problem? I have personally used this trick quite successfully. It does serve this purpose. -- Cheers Robert On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:12:18 +1000, Jezebel wrote: "Robert" wrote in message ... Greetings-- Expanded character spacing can be part of a style. If you make it part of the document Normal style, it will be applied to all of it. -- That's why it doesn't help for this purpose. |
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