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From: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Reducing inter-character spacing?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:20:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120424172045.33b47fe2@Zewz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGbDsP2+99k+vDzpOD0KVt7itkpQDA9tbtJ-u5Pc9hbh9G555w@mail.gmail.com>

On 2012-04-24 Mari Voipio <mari.voipio@iki.fi> wrote:

> How can I reduces inter-character spacing in a font?

\definecharacterkerning [narrow] [factor=-.1]
\definecharacterkerning [wide]   [factor=.2]

\starttext

\setcharacterkerning [narrow]
\input knuth

\setcharacterkerning [wide]
\input knuth

\setcharacterkerning [reset]
\input knuth

\stoptext

Watch out, this mechanism breaks ligatures.

Marco


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24 14:55 Mari Voipio
2012-04-24 15:20 ` Marco [this message]
2012-04-24 16:41   ` Mari Voipio

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