[xep-support] bug: leader with long leader-length

[David Tolpin]

On 07.07.2005, at 10:31, Peter Gerstbach wrote:

> David Tolpin wrote:
>
>> This may happen, and this is not a bug, just negative letter- 
>> spacing.  It is normal, if you want it to work differently,  
>> explicitly set  either the minimum leader-length, or the minimum  
>> letter-spacing.
>>
>
> In the specs says: "If the leader's minimum length [...] is too  
> long to be placed in a line by itself, it will overflow the line  
> and potentially overflow the reference-area in accordance with that  
> container's overflow trait."
>
> But does this mean, that negative letter-spacing should be used? It  
> is set to "normal" initially, which means that the normal spacing  
> for the current font is used.

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7.16.2 "letter spacing"
...

normal
The spacing is the normal spacing for the current font. This value  
allows the user agent to alter the space between characters in order  
to justify text.

====================



Spacing between characters is used to compensate for overflowed lines  
when word-spacing is not sufficient for that without loosing  
readability.  Negative letter-spacing is a normal thing: normal  
spacing is 0, if one needs to tighten a line, the negative spacing is  
used. Use letter-spacing="0" if you don't want the formatter to mess  
with it.



David
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