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| <h3>The space between the letters in a word seems just a bit too wide. It would look better if that space is being reduced. How can I achieve this?</h3> |
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| <p>What you need to enable is "Kerning". |
| Kerning is part of the typesetting process, where the space between |
| letters is adjusted to the appearance of the letter and its |
| neighbour. For example, when a <tt>V</tt> is followed by an |
| <tt>A</tt>, the shape of the letters would result in a little too much |
| space between them, and this just doesn't look nice. The <tt>A</tt> |
| should be moved a little towards the <tt>V</tt>. |
| |
| <p>This text is not kerned: |
| <br><img src="lvat1.jpg"> |
| <br>As you can see, the space between the letters is just too wide. |
| <p>This text is kerned: |
| <br><img src="lvat2.jpg"> |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>So how do you enable kerning?</p> |
| <p>If you need kerning only for selected parts of your text, follow these steps:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Highlight the passages of your text for which kerning needs to be enabled. |
| <li>Now > Format > Character > Position > Spacing, here check box "pair kerning" |
| </ul> |
| <p>If you need the whole text to be "kerned", follow here</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Press F1 to open the stylist. |
| <li>Click on paragraph styles icon to open the list of paragraph styles. |
| <li>Rightclick on each paragraph styles that's being used > Modify. |
| <li>Now > Position > Spacing, here check box "pair kerning". |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>Note that kerning is controlled by information in the font data |
| (in particular the font metrics). |
| Fonts that do not need such precise corrections, |
| like fixed width fonts, will not be subject to kerning.</p> |
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