Re: stretching the caps

[Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de>]

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Hi Bill,

sorry, I cannot help, but I have some comments on this.

> This is perhaps more of a TeX question. The typography manuals recommend
> letterspacing strings of caps and small caps. 

Right, but not streched by a fixed amount. This should be done by kerning 
pairs. So, for example, RA needs a differend spacing then HE. 

Too bad that there is no 'kerning on the fly' for \TeX. (Or, did I miss 
something? Perhaps something for my diploma thesis?)

I would do stuff like this (and already did) with virtual fonts. So you can 
adjust the spacing properly and this is done everywhere you need the Caps.
It takes some time, but it is worth the trouble.

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> (I swear I will never letterspace lowercase letters).

:) Doesn't quark express do nasty things like that?

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Viele Grüße, 

    Patrick Gundlach