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| david aumueller | Mar 4, 2002 1:14 pm | |
| Norman Walsh | Mar 5, 2002 9:41 am |
| Subject: | DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: typography in dsssl (print) | |
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| From: | Norman Walsh (nd...@nwalsh.com) | |
| Date: | Mar 5, 2002 9:41:01 am | |
| List: | org.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps | |
/ david aumueller <lis...@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
-- Norman Walsh <nd...@nwalsh.com> | Science is like sex: sometimes http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | something useful comes out, but Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | that is not the reason we are | doing it.--Richard Feynman





