Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:58 AM 11/18/00 GMT, Maarten Wisse wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Still working on the birth announcement. I tried to do some manual kerning 
>tweaking on some of the characters, and I used \kern to achieve this. 
>However, this low level command seems (I quite sure about that) to influence 
>the allignment of the paragraph, which is centered by 
>\steluitlijnenin[midden] in the preamble.
>So, my question is easy: is there a high level command in ConTeXt which does 
>manaual kerning and doesn't affect allignment?
>Thanks for your comments,

Kern can be horizontal as well as vertical, so it depends a bit. Can you
give a simple example of how you are using it [given that the baby is not
yet born]? 

>P.S. Just a note which might be interesting for ConTeXt users. Hans uses 
>Lucida fonts quite frequently, but they are not free. Now, in XFree86 4.0, 
>the new version of Windows which is used on Linux distributions, Y&Y has 
>freely provided a font called Lucidux which is a clone of Lucida. Make tfm 
>and vf out of that, and you have at least Lucida, Lucida Bright and Lucida 
>Sans. Nice for presentations for instance. Just change the presentation 
>style file to Lucidux and it's fixed.

Interesting. We need to look into that. The best way to handle this is 

\definefontsynonym [LucidaBright] [Lucidux] 

or whatever the names are, so, what are the names of the files? 

Hans
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