Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt

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On 18 Nov, Maarten Wisse wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Still working on the birth announcement. I tried to do some manual
> kerning tweaking on some of the characters, and I used \kern to
> achieve this. However, this low level command seems (I quite sure
> about that) to influence the allignment of the paragraph, which is
> centered by
> \steluitlijnenin[midden] in the preamble.
> So, my question is easy: is there a high level command in ConTeXt
> which does manaual kerning and doesn't affect allignment? Thanks for
> your comments,
> 
> 
> Maarten Wisse
> 
> P.S. Just a note which might be interesting for ConTeXt users. Hans
> uses Lucida fonts quite frequently, but they are not free. Now, in
> XFree86 4.0, the new version of Windows which is used on Linux
> distributions, Y&Y has freely provided a font called Lucidux which is
> a clone of Lucida. Make tfm and vf out of that, and you have at least
> Lucida, Lucida Bright and Lucida Sans. Nice for presentations for
> instance. Just change the presentation style file to Lucidux and it's
> fixed.

The Type1 versions of the Lucida fonts come with StarOffice 5.2, which
is free.

Siep