Manual Kerning on non-US keyboards
Migrated from https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171103
From 2006-01-24 to 2009-10-22
Summary:
Original title: Manual Kerning on non-US keyboards
On many non-US keyboards,
<
and>
are the same key (toggled withShift
). This makes manual kerning quite confusing, as you can only step in 10s in one direction, and only in 1s in the other. Maybe the numeric keypad might come in useful?
Steps to reproduce:
From the Inkscape manual...
Letter spacing can be changed via an entry box in the Tool Controls ( icon ) (New in v0.48) or by keyboard shortcuts. Changes apply to selected text if text is selected or the entire text block if not. Note that the keyboard shortcuts are defined in terms of Screen pixels and thus depend on the zoom level. Also note that if some text already has letter spacing applied to it, the letter spacing of that text will not be changed if the text cursor is elsewhere.
Alt+>: Expand line (paragraph) or selected text by one Screen pixel. Alt+<: Contract line (paragraph) or selected text by one Screen pixel. Shift+Alt+>: Expand line (paragraph) or selected text by ten Screen pixels. Shift+Alt+<: Contract line (paragraph) or selected text by ten Screen pixels.
What happened?
On my non-US Mac aluminum 105-key keyboard, I can't get the furshlugginer "kerning" "letterspacing" thing to work. I selected the US and the US-Int'l layouts and still nothing.
If anything, I get various extended characters regardless of layout.
EDIT: Letterspacing (or "Spacing between letters (px)" as the tooltip says) "Horizontal Kerning" works just fine but that involves the Alt
+ arrows keys.
Tangential question:
- Why is letterspacing/kerning/shifting only in px?
Version Info:
- Inkscape Version: up to 1.1-dev (7802ed9, 2020-09-04)
- Operating System: macOS 10.13.6 (17G12034)