From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Adjusting Kerning/Spacing between Letter
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 11:20:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09d84d56-3cc7-3f0e-a3c7-91895ed994b0@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2A06F2BE-F23C-4E06-8663-73941DE61417@uva.nl>
On 5/25/2016 9:44 AM, Meer, Hans van der wrote:
>
>> On 02 Jan 2015, at 11:42, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/2/2015 12:56 AM, Malte Stien wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to typeset some strings in {\tt ...}, but they turn out to be pretty wide. So, I would like to compress those bits of text a little. Any hints on how I could do that locally, that is without adjusting the entire font.
>>
>> \starttext
>> \definecharacterkerning[tight][factor=-.5]
>>
>> test {\tt \setcharacterkerning[tight]tight} test
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> (Btw, there is a narrow monospaced lm font)
>
> I implemented it by redefining \tt:
> \definecharacterkerning[tight][factor=-.075]
> \let\oldtt=\tt
> \def\tt{\setcharacterkerning[tight]\oldtt}
>
> However, I find this a bit of a kludge. But opinions may differ, of course.
> Can this be done in a more general way? For example by setting some font feature?
no, becasue it is independent of font features (and also less efficient
that using a narrow tt font)
Hans
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl
-----------------------------------------------------------------
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-27 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-01 23:56 Malte Stien
2015-01-02 10:42 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-25 7:44 ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-05-25 13:50 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-05-27 9:20 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=09d84d56-3cc7-3f0e-a3c7-91895ed994b0@wxs.nl \
--to=pragma@wxs.nl \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).