From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew@sil.org>
To: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: XeTeX: faked bold & slanted + request for ppc users
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:06:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33989BD0-1D22-4308-A0D4-41EB5C503AEE@sil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00803100650q575f6c3dx18f731c129463cf9@mail.gmail.com>
On 10 Mar 2008, at 1:50 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking
>>> bold
>>> and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that
>>> feature
>>> already). It's generally a bad idea to use it, but in case that you
>>> need it only for small portions of text (if you really have no other
>>> way out), it could be handy. (Slanted is less evil to use than
>>> "bold".)
>>
>>> The plain syntax is:
>>>
>>> \font\a="Gentium"
>>> \font\b="Gentium:slant=0.2" % better: \font\b="Gentium/I"
>>> \font\c="Gentium:embolden=2"
>>> \font\d="Gentium:embolden=2;slant=0.2"
>>
>> hm, so it's embolden? in that case we need a remap to extend
>
> If I understand your question, extending the kerning for line
> thickness is missing, yes
If you want to loosen the letter spacing slightly, just use something
like
\font\a="Gentium:embolden=2;letterspace=2"
> (but maybe not desired in monospace fonts or
> in Chinese, which is where the feature request came from,
Right, which is why it's not automatically applied.
JK
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-09 15:28 Mojca Miklavec
2008-03-09 19:26 ` Hans Hagen
2008-03-10 13:50 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-03-10 15:06 ` Jonathan Kew [this message]
2008-03-10 21:03 ` Hans Hagen
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