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From: "Meer, Hans van der" <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
To: NTG ConTeXt <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Adjusting Kerning/Spacing between Letter
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 07:44:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2A06F2BE-F23C-4E06-8663-73941DE61417@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54A67612.8070004@wxs.nl>


> On 02 Jan 2015, at 11:42, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 1/2/2015 12:56 AM, Malte Stien wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying to typeset some strings in {\tt ...}, but they turn out to be pretty wide. So, I would like to compress those bits of text a little. Any hints on how I could do that locally, that is without adjusting the entire font.
> 
> \starttext
>    \definecharacterkerning[tight][factor=-.5]
> 
>    test {\tt \setcharacterkerning[tight]tight} test
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> (Btw, there is a narrow monospaced lm font)

I implemented it by redefining \tt: 
  \definecharacterkerning[tight][factor=-.075]
  \let\oldtt=\tt 
  \def\tt{\setcharacterkerning[tight]\oldtt}

However, I find this a bit of a kludge. But opinions may differ, of course.
Can this be done in a more general way? For example by setting some font feature?
 
Hans van der Meer




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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-25  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-01 23:56 Malte Stien
2015-01-02 10:42 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-25  7:44   ` Meer, Hans van der [this message]
2016-05-25 13:50     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-05-27  9:20     ` Hans Hagen

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