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Re: typography in dsssl (print)
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: david aumueller <lists at huah dot org>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:15:23 +0000
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: typography in dsssl (print)
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020304213939.00b5ea28@pop.puretec.de>
/ david aumueller <lists@huah.org> was heard to say:
| (1) Just wondered why sub-/superscripts are defined by fractions of
| font-size since there seem to be "\sub" and "\super" -constructs
| in RTF as well, which would -- in contrast to the current method
Well, I'm not sure Jade exposes that part of RTF, though I suppose it
could in theory.
| -- use the fonts' own sub- and superscript-characters. The latter
| (if available) went through their own development-process under
| the type-designer's mouse: As true SmallCaps-characters, true sub-
True, but often only a few numbers are provided unless you have a special
font, so in the general case, you'd still have problems. (I expect the proper
superscript 1, 2, 3 followed by a faked superscript 4 would look even worse
than a consistently faked set of numbers.)
| Furthermore, the scaling-factors defined in dbparams.dsl do not result
| in nice sizes to my eyes. I propose the following values:
I don't usually change existing values except to fix bugs since the
change effects so many documents. You can put the values you prefer in a
customization layer, of course.
Be seeing you,
norm
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