From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3363 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: siepo@client44-3.kabelA.oprit.rug.nl Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:17:31 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20001118112053.4680F2317E@client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl> References: Reply-To: siepo@cybercomm.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394100 16385 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:28:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3363 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3363 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