From: kopszak@mnw.art.pl (Piotr Kopszak)
Subject: Re: stretched text
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:04:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026140428.GA1573@mnw.art.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041025103253.09ec2328@atipa.local>
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:32:53AM -0500, Bill McClain wrote:
> 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
Right, but as far as I understand this solution:
\def\CapStretchAmount{.08em}
\def\CapStretch#1{\def\stretchedspaceamount{\CapStretchAmount}\stretchednormalcase{#1}}
Which is used as so:
\CapStretch{\sc The King in Yellow}
applies only to small caps?
Piotr
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 14:04 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
2004-10-26 14:04 ` Piotr Kopszak [this message]
2004-10-26 14:16 ` Tobias Burnus
2004-10-26 14:50 ` Hans Hagen
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