From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3366 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:33:17 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001119163317.0177dd90@pop.wxs.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394102 16401 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Maarten Wisse" In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3366 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3366 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------