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• • May 25, 2014 at 2:33 pm #68623
    Andy Mcgroarty

    Member

    Hi there

    I have just been given a new project, to typeset an A5 book using Calibri font at 12pt, justified text, with no hyphenation.

    I have never worked with this font before, can anybody make a suggestion for the justification settings?

    Thanking you kindly!

  • May 26, 2014 at 6:37 am #68638
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    justification is really an aesthetic task, so it’s hard to give suggestions. That said, I find Calibri always too “open/loose.” So I would change the settings in the paragraphs style to something like
    Wordspacing 80/95/133
    Letterspacing -3/-2/0
    Glyph scaling 98/100/102

  • May 26, 2014 at 9:16 am #68647
    Andy Mcgroarty

    Member

    Brilliant David!

    I’ll give that a try!

    Thanks again, your’e a legend!

  • May 28, 2014 at 12:23 am #68683
    Andy Mcgroarty

    Member

    So i gave your suggestion a try and it looks great!

    I also found your article “What Are Your Favorite Word and Character Space Settings for H&Js?” very useful as well.

    Thank you so much for all your help!

    This website and forum is so helpful, useful and informative!

    You guys are awesome!

  • May 28, 2014 at 6:28 am #68685
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Thanks, Andy!

  • May 31, 2014 at 2:38 pm #68743
    Andy Mcgroarty

    Member

    Hi there David

    I wondered if i might be able to help me? I recently downloaded called Amiri: https://www.amirifont.org for my English transliteration of Arabic.

    There seem to be a fair amount of ligatures and stuff, but I’m not sure about the kerning etc. Being a novice I wondered, if you didn’t mind, could i tap your expertise and get your assessment of it? Maybe you could make some suggestions in regards to justification and so on?

    Thank you so much!

  • June 2, 2014 at 5:16 am #68754
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Andy, hopefully I am wrong, but will all of your tinkering with word and letterspacing not be rendered completely moot with “justified text, with no hyphenation”?

    In my professional opinion, there is NO WAY you can use the phrases ‘nice spacing’, ‘justification’, and ‘no hyphenation’ together in a single sentence. I.e., pick 2 — any 2 — but then forget about the 3rd one.

  • June 2, 2014 at 8:45 am #68755
    Andy Mcgroarty

    Member

    Hi Theunis. I am not a professional, just a novice so, thank you so much for your comments, i value your opinion and experience and will add it to my slowly increasing knowledge base.

    But, the suggestions that David made were excellent and have made a real difference to the way the text looks on the page. I have had to make the odd manual hyphenation here and there, but not many and on the whole i have managed to stick to the project remit successfully.

    Thanks and best wishes

    Andy

  • June 2, 2014 at 1:46 pm #68762
    Andy Mcgroarty

    Member

    Whilst you are here Theunis i have a few questions on Indyfont, could i send them to you?

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