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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

-- 
   Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D.          
   Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw    
   ----------------------------->    http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/ 

  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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