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Subject: stretching the caps
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 05:59:42 -0600
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This is perhaps more of a TeX question. The typography manuals recommend
letterspacing strings of caps and small caps. I see the \stretch macro,
but it requires a box of predetermined size. I would like to do
something like:

Make the string 10% wider:

   \Mystretch {BARCHESTER TOWERS} 1.10

or: Add .2pts between each character:

   \Mystretch {FRAMLEY PARSONAGE} 0.2pts

(I swear I will never letterspace lowercase letters).

-Bill