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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-letterspace.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-letterspace.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..193d90f4fee --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-letterspace.html @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label letterspace</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Changing the space between letters</h3> +<p>A common technique in advertising copy (and other text whose actual +content need not actually be <em>read</em>) is to alter the space +between the letters (otherwise known as the tracking). As a general +rule, this is a very bad idea: it detracts from legibility, which is +contrary to the principles of typesetting (any respectable font you +might be using should already have optimum tracking built into it). +<p>The great type designer, Eric Gill, is credited with saying "he who +would letterspace lower-case text, would steal sheep". (The +attribution is probably apocryphal: others are also credited with the +remark. Stealing sheep was, in the 19th century, a capital offence in +Britain.) As the remark suggests, though, letterspacing of upper-case +text is less awful a crime; the technique used also to be used for +emphasis of text set in Fraktur (or similar) fonts. +<p>Straightforward macros (usable, in principle, with any TeX macro +package) may be found in <i>letterspacing</i> (which is the name of +the <code>.tex</code> file; it also appears as the <i>letterspace</i> package +in some distributions). +<p> + +<p>A more comprehensive solution is to be found in the <i>soul</i> +package (which is optimised for use with LaTeX, but also works with +Plain TeX). Soul also permits hyphenation of letterspaced text; +Gill's view of such an activity is not (even apocryphally) recorded. +(Spacing-out forms part of the name of <i>soul</i>; the other half +is described in <a href="FAQ-underline.html">another question</a>.) +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>letterspacing.tex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/letterspacing.tex">macros/generic/letterspacing.tex</a> +<dt><tt><i>soul.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/soul.zip">macros/latex/contrib/soul</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/soul.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/soul/">browse</a>) + +</dl> +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=letterspace">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=letterspace</a> +</body> |