From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6899 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Gundlach Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: stretching the caps Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:12:12 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <02021521121200.02328@levana> References: <3C6CF82E.E0FFC2E6@salamander.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397404 14833 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:23:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:23:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "ntg-context@ntg.nl" In-Reply-To: <3C6CF82E.E0FFC2E6@salamander.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6899 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6899 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. [...] > (I swear I will never letterspace lowercase letters). :) Doesn't quark express do nasty things like that? -- Viele Grüße, Patrick Gundlach