From: Bill McClain <wmcclain@salamander.com>
Subject: Re: stretched text
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:32:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041025103253.09ec2328@atipa.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041025140610.GA7337@mnw.art.pl>
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:06:10 +0200
kopszak@mnw.art.pl (Piotr Kopszak) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently
> formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations
> and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is
> it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have
> it... (in spite of its ugliness).
It's still recommended in certain cases, for example in all capital or
small cap titles. Sometimes I do it and sometimes not.
You can do it in Context. See:
http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#typography-letterspacing
You might have to look into the sources to find other options.
-Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-25 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-25 14:06 Piotr Kopszak
2004-10-25 15:28 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-10-25 15:32 ` Bill McClain [this message]
2004-10-26 14:04 ` Piotr Kopszak
2004-10-26 14:16 ` Tobias Burnus
2004-10-26 14:50 ` Hans Hagen
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