From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7877 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: The zf command? Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:53:14 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200205171153.14369.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <200205161932.45234.john@wexfordpress.com> <20020517135542.B26360210@aisa.fi.muni.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398318 23063 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:38:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: David Antos , NTG ConTeXt Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20020517135542.B26360210@aisa.fi.muni.cz> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7877 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7877 On Friday 17 May 2002 07:55 am, David Antos wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:32:45PM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > Somewhere somehow I read about a facility devleoped by Herman Zapf > > that justified type by changing the width of individual glyphs, or > > something like that. Was I dreaming? Is there such a feature? Does it > > look OK? > > Yes, have a look at the pdfTeX manual and Thanh's Ph.D. thesis (available > at www.pragma-ade.com). It looks nice. > > D.A. I think the command is \NormalizeFontWidth. The pdfTeX User Manual uses it just once, before the title. I am not certain what the scope of the command is. Is it global? Is it intended for regular typesetting or just titles etc.? I will try it out in any case to see what the effect is. Thanks for the heads-up. I would have searched forever :-) John Culleton -- Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com