[softwarelist] Re: OPW - Enhanced justification

In message <48FCFBE3.5020701@xxxxxxxx>
          Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> There appears to be a consistent problem when a line ends in a full
> stop, which becomes more evident when there are several such lines close
> together. I find that these lines do not always align to the right
> margin (neither on screen nor in print). Playing with the enhanced
> justification settings fails to rectify the problem.

> Has anyone else noticed this, and found a solution?

Yes and yes, use another font.

Now a longer reply.

If you look at the size of a full stop in a font editing program you 
will see it is slightly more than the diameter of the full stop 
itself. I believe this to be approx. 0,2mm to 0,5mm. You can see this 
in a OP document at 1000%; select Ruler and set some vertical 
guidelines.
  Another way to visualize this is to place the caret at the end of 
the line. If this ends with a full stop you'll see that the caret is 
somewhat to the right of the full stop. When the line ends with a 
letter the caret "touches" this letter.

The difference is far greater with Corpus or Evenletter. With these 
fonts the full stop will appear exactly in the middle under the last 
letter at the end of the line above.

What precedes is valid for serif fonts. Non serif fonts sometimes use 
more space than the design of the letter is wide (e.g. in Homerton the 
letter o versus the letter t). Wider space than the letter/token 
design also exists for the hyphen (in Trinity) and some other tokens.

Maybe EFF have fonts with "zero" size to the right of the full stop 
and other tokens concerned, so I send them a copy of this message 
(hoping the address is correct).

-- 
Greetings,
JohnvV
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