From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39430 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Kew Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeTeX: faked bold & slanted + request for ppc users Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:06:00 +0000 Message-ID: <33989BD0-1D22-4308-A0D4-41EB5C503AEE@sil.org> References: <6faad9f00803090828v6fb74397xd52f5de52f9da3c4@mail.gmail.com> <47D439D7.3050202@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00803100650q575f6c3dx18f731c129463cf9@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205161670 21661 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 15:07:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Mojca Miklavec Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 10 16:08:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYjbe-00057H-4V for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:08:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC3A1FB14; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:07:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23720-02; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D8C1FB30; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC64B1FB30 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23413-04-4 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp1.wsfo.org (smtp1.wsfo.org [208.145.81.51]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 832461FB29 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.link77.net (mail.link77.net [172.22.0.125]) by smtp1.wsfo.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m2AF6EWM016863 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:06:14 -0400 X-CGP-ClamAV-Result: CLEAN X-VirusScanner: Niversoft's CGPClamav Helper v1.72 (ClamAV engine v0.91.2) Original-Received: from [212.159.30.215] (account jonathan_kew@sil.org HELO [192.168.0.3]) by mail.link77.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.0) with ESMTPSA id 174541598; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:06:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00803100650q575f6c3dx18f731c129463cf9@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.62 on 172.22.0.51 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:39430 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________