From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/73651 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Susan Dittmar Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Not wanted hidden spaces when you compress fonts Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20120106112310.GA27824@eureca.de> References: <4F06D322.3090808@gmx.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325849022 22845 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2012 11:23:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:23:42 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 06 12:23:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rj7ta-0003va-DM for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:23:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E4FCB1DD; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:34 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id QwllGc6F6ofl; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA221CB1D2; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4087CB1D2 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:19 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id J0GhWilhB2+3 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter5-til.mf.surf.net (filter5-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.221]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9257CB1D1 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from eureca.de (eureca.de [195.14.253.195]) by filter5-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id q06BN7n8018386 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:08 +0100 Original-Received: from dualxeon.intern.eureca.de (p578b351e.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.139.53.30]) by eureca.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B22046529 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by dualxeon.intern.eureca.de (Postfix, from userid 1102) id 005AEDE3958; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:23:10 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F06D322.3090808@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Bayes-Prob: 0.9997 (Score 4.7, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=195.14.253.195; country=DE; latitude=51.0000; longitude=9.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.0000,9.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0HGibn7df - f5c56aec02a9 - 20120106 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.221 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:73651 Archived-At: Dear Jan, > when I turn off the compression [extend=0.8] -> [extend=1] > the problems are gone :-) ... the compression unfourtunately > also :-( > What do I have to configure to get the compression without > spaces? :-) I guess you will need a new font, or a new version of the same font with compression. I am sure there are tools out there that can do the compression of a font. As far as I understand, TeX itself knows nothing about the glyphs. They are just some boxes for the TeX engine. It does not handle the glyphs itself -- TeX just places them. So the only way TeX has to compress fonts is to push the glyphs closer together -- thus introducing these 'spaces' (in fact, they are negative spaces, places where TeX interrupts words to push the glyphs closer together). In very special cases you might be able to use postscript's (or pdf's) transformation engine to archieve condensed fonts. I once used that by creating a minipage with 'normal' font within a picture environment that itself then did the transformation. But I guess that's not what you really are after. Hope that helps, Susan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________