Condensed font

I've finally nailed down a long-standing problem with fonts, and need some
help.

I have an RTF document in TextEdit. There are two paragraphs therein, one of
which contains text which is slightly squashed up: the letters are all
compressed sideways and look horrible. The other paragraph is normal.

If I highlight one of the paragraphs and then select
Format > Font > Styles... I see a little sample of the font with its name
and size. If it's the squashed font I selected, I also see the word
"Condensed".

I can manipulate condensed text around TextEdit in the same way as I can
manipulate, bold, say, or italic. Condensed-ness is preserved when I change
the size of the text, or indeed the actual font. So there appears to be some
'condensed' parameter which can be applied to a font, or not.



Questions, then:

1. How do I apply or disapply this parameter? Is this documented anywhere?

2. If I cut-and-paste to a different application, is it supposed to be
preserved?

3. If I cut-and-paste a paragraph into Pages (or any word-processor on my
computer), any condensing is removed. I don't particularly care about this.

However, If I cut-and-paste into DVD Studio Pro, *all* text becomes
condensed. This looks terrible. Is there a way of using text in DVD Studio
Pro so that it isn't condensed?



Note that 'condensed' text (whereby the letters are compressed sideways) is
not the same as kerning, whereby the gaps between the letters are reduced.
Neither is it the same as Word's 'condensed text', which has the same effect,
but appears to be a Microsoft proprietary way of distorting the letters and
doesn't show up as 'condensed' in TextEdit's Styles menu.

Cheers,

Martin S Taylor

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