[XeTeX] fontspec's "LetterSpace" and inter-word space

[António Fernandes]

Hi Florian,

Why aren't you setting a different value for the WordSpace parameter.
For instance, if you set

\addfontfeature{LetterSpace=15,WordSpace=10}{
A LONGISH TITLE OR LINE IN  ALL-CAPS CAN BE HARD TO READ\\}

The sentence will be less hard to read. (The result will not be the  
one you certainly want. You'll have to play with the values to achieve  
perfection!)

Best regards,
António




On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Florian Grammel wrote:

> As our house-font doesn't have OT-features, I use fontspec's
> LetterSpace-option to slighly letterspace all-caps passages.
> Fontspec obviously enlarges inter-word spaces by the same amount as
> spacing between the single letters. I just think that it looks as if
> the words "stick together" when spaced this way -- especially longer
> all-caps passages (e.g. in headers) tend to become difficult to read
> Therefor I'd like to increase the interword-space a bit more than the
> inter-char space. Is there a possibility to do this with fontspec or
> directly in XeTeX?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Florian.
>
>
>
> \documentclass{scrbook}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
>
> \setromanfont{Garamond}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> {\centering
> WORD WORD WORD WORD\\
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=5}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=10}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=15}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=20}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=25}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=30}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=35}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=40}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=45}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=50}{WORD WORD WORD WORD\\}
> }
>
> \noindent\addfontfeature{LetterSpace=15}{A LONGISH TITLE OR LINE IN
> ALL-CAPS CAN BE HARD TO READ\\}
>
> \end{document}
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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