Character Styles
Character Styles
Please fill in this table, so we can get a perfect set of attributes for a character style made to go into 1.3 format DTD. Please put your signature at the bottom of the page for further reference and credits (use characters - - ~ ~ ~ ~ without spaces between them or the second button from the right in the button bar of wiki editor window).
| Attribute Name | Description | Examples |
| Font Family | Arial, Vera Serif, URW Bookman, Utopia | |
| Font weight | Normal/Regular, Bold, Black, Light, Demibold, Book, Extrabold, etc | |
| Font slant | Italic/Oblique, etc | |
| Font Face** | Name for (Family, Weight, Slant) | Utopia Bold Italic, URW Bookman Demibold Oblique |
| Font size | Needs units (pt | pica | ?) | 12 pts |
| Font width | AV: What about hor/vert scaling? | 25-100 % it seems from the current 1.2 text properties palette |
| Tracking | ||
| AV: what's the difference to tracking? A:see [1], tom; and [2]; Basically, kerning relates to two specific letters, like AV, WA etc. whereas tracking is general letter spacing. Christoph **** goes to font settings | ||
| Word spacing | Word spacing (see http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1422) | |
| Leading | Line spacing | |
| Baseline-shift | Raising/Lowering text | |
| Color of text stroke | ||
| Color of text fill | ||
| Shadow of text stroke | ||
| Shadow of text fill | ||
| Opacity of text stroke | ||
| Opacity of text fill | ||
| Language | Required in case of OpenType features | |
| Direction | right to left or left to right (default) AV: this is usually determined from the characters used. What about vertical? | |
| superscript and subscript AV: is that related to superior/inferior OTF feature?? **** becomes a feature | ||
| Uppercase, lowercase, title case, small caps
AV: might activate OTF features if available **** becomes a feature | ||
| **** becomes a feature | ||
| becomes a feature | ||
| Outline* | also a feature? | |
| Creates a "hotspot" for hyphentation **** replaced by SHY character | ||
| Relates to Justified (block) alignment space suppression
**** will go away, was only internal, no? | ||
| Parental paragraph style | AV: Will be replaced by inherited character style | |
| OTF features | some of those will be used automatically, eg. smallcaps | ligatures, oldstyle numerals, swash |
Notes
* Generally grouped by the term "text decoration" though that's unimportant for the file format.
** Font Face is the combination of font family, weight, and slant. After discussion on IRC it was decided to store the font face in the doc format. We might store the (family, weight, slant) info but only as hints to help the font substitution dialog find good close matches.
***It might be a good idea if there is a room to setup a font family in a template. This would for example say if the regular font is Times T1 Regular then the bold for this would be Times T1 Medium Black 22. This is just to trigger the appropriate font when we press CTRL+B or the Bold button. Similarly we declare what is italic, bold-italic, superscript, etc... It must also be OpenType features aware also. --Suki 12:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
****Errm, there is no "Bold" button, and Ctrl+B is an unused shortcut. Bold, italic works differently in Scribus, and that's on purpose.--C schaefer 22:44, 7 October 2007 (CEST)
*** Doesn't that mean that we should also define other types of hyphens as shown in the Unicode standard? This one is icky. It might be better to enumerate those either in a sub-dtd or elsewhere in the scribus code. Let's discuss this --Malex 07:10, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'd also rather use the Unicode SHY for that! --Avox 23:00, 14 February 2006 (CET)
**** All text decoration should be included in a list of features: ul, strike, sup, sub, caps, smallcaps, bold, italic, oldstyle num, other OTF features, ... Some of those features will be realized by Scribus, others by the spaing engine (OTF features). Scribus could define fallbacks, eg. for smallcaps. We could also include params for features, eg. "xoffset=+2pt"
Contributions from
Malex
CBradney
ringerc --Ringerc 06:55, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Suki -- 05:50, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
avox (AV) --Avox 23:00, 14 February 2006 (CET)
Suki --Suki 12:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC)