From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16779 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kopszak@mnw.art.pl (Piotr Kopszak) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: stretched text Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:04:28 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20041026140428.GA1573@mnw.art.pl> References: <20041025140610.GA7337@mnw.art.pl> <20041025103253.09ec2328@atipa.local> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098799205 20306 80.91.229.6 (26 Oct 2004 14:00:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:00:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Oct 26 15:59:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CMRrX-0006xx-00 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:59:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B991278C; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:59:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19890-05-3; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:59:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 294681277E; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:59:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E841277E for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:59:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19890-05-2 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:59:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mnw5.mnw.art.pl (unknown [195.117.227.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DEB11277C for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:59:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from axent.mnw.art.pl ([195.117.227.64]) by mnw5.mnw.art.pl (Kerio MailServer 5.7.8) for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:09:57 +0200 Original-Received: by axent.mnw.art.pl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C5ACD47EDF4; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:04:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Mail-Followup-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041025103253.09ec2328@atipa.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16779 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16779 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/