From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing ConTeXt users list for <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: fit to width by negative letterspacing or narrowing
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:25:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2BAEF00E-F2AE-4E30-9F86-548BB2A7B918@fiee.net> (raw)
Hello again, it's been a while... ;-)
I need to pack fixed lines into a fixed width box.
Some years ago I had something similar in plain PostScript, where I
pre-calculated the width of a text box, let the default font if it
would fit my max size, otherwise try a narrow font and if that wasn’t
enough decreased font size until it would fit.
This time I've only one font and must not decrease font size, but must
use negative kerning and perhaps some artificial narrowing.
How can I do that with ConTeXt?
I use MkIV, so any Lua solution is welcome.
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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next reply other threads:[~2011-05-17 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 11:25 Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2011-05-17 11:53 ` Hans Hagen
2011-05-18 7:41 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-06-13 12:15 ` measuring alphabet length Christoph Redecker
2011-06-13 12:30 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-13 12:34 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-13 12:38 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-13 12:43 ` Christoph Redecker
2011-06-13 12:59 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-13 13:02 ` netiquette (was: measuring alphabet length) Paul Menzel
2011-06-13 13:14 ` measuring alphabet length Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-15 9:29 ` Hans Hagen
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