[reportlab-users] Alternative paragraph implementation with HTML and CSS

Roberto Alsina ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar
Wed Jul 15 10:54:49 EDT 2009


Dinu Gherman writes:


> Andy Robinson:

>

>> Dinu, if people are saying this, is it 'body text' they care about,

>> or occasional use of titles?

>

>

> It depends on the use case. Of course when the document is mostly

> about "dumb tables" people don't care about kerning. But as soon

> as the "reading experience" becomes important the kerning has an

> impact. The end reader might perhaps not really notice (or maybe

> not consciously) but the client does and even more so when he is

> fixed on using specific fonts, first in headlines and immediately

> after in the body text.

>

> I hope I'll be able to prepare some examples, soon, for less font-

> aware people to see what a difference this makes...


Tis would be very interesting for rst2pdf, since some people are starting to
use it for small books.


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