From: "Brian R. Landy" <brian@landy.cx>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \getscaledglyph for width-only
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:12:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <296DB2BB-3E87-4B3A-AC16-E040DBF9EA72@landy.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82d10d4d-15f5-60ca-3842-8e92f88f03d3@wxs.nl>
> On Aug 17, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> On 8/17/2016 9:56 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote:
>> Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to call \getscaledglyph to scale a
>> glyph only horizontally, leaving the height untouched? Or maybe an
>> alternate command?
>>
>> I can sort of accomplish this with (for example)
>> \scale[sx=0.75,sy=1.0]{}{A}, but that encloses the glyph in an \hbox,
>> which can be problematic. \getscaledglyph doesn't cause me any
>> problems, except that it scales the height too.
>
> \starttext
>
> \definefontfeature[whatever][default][extend=2.5]
>
> \definedfont[Serif*whatever at 12pt]
>
> whatever
>
> \stoptext
>
Thank you. One thing that \getscaledglyph does it works agnostic to the currently selected font. For example:
\starttext
% This will print a sans “A” 1.5x larger than 12pt
\switchtobodyfont[12pt,sans]
\getscaledglyph{1.5}{}{A}\par
% This will print a serif “A” 1.5x larger than 10pt
\switchtobodyfont[10pt,serif]
\getscaledglyph{1.5}{}{A}\par
\stoptext
I’m guessing there isn’t a way to use \definedfont in a similar fashion?
Also, I noticed that \definedfont doesn’t seem to play nicely with \switchtobodyfont:
\starttext
\definefontfeature[whatever][default][extend=2.5]
% This looks ok
\switchtobodyfont[12pt,serif]
{\definedfont[Serif*whatever at 12pt] what}ever\par
% the “ever” is not printed properly, it overlaps itself
\switchtobodyfont[10pt,serif]
{\definedfont[Serif*whatever at 10pt] what}ever\par
\stoptext
Best,
Brian
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-17 19:56 Brian R. Landy
2016-08-17 21:45 ` Hans Hagen
2016-08-17 23:12 ` Brian R. Landy [this message]
2016-08-18 8:20 ` Hans Hagen
2016-08-18 16:30 ` Brian R. Landy
2016-08-18 22:11 ` Hans Hagen
2016-08-20 11:53 ` Hans Hagen
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