From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: fit to width by negative letterspacing or narrowing
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:53:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD261BD.60309@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2BAEF00E-F2AE-4E30-9F86-548BB2A7B918@fiee.net>
On 17-5-2011 1:25, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Hello again, it's been a while... ;-)
>
> I need to pack fixed lines into a fixed width box.
>
> Some years ago I had something similar in plain PostScript, where I
> pre-calculated the width of a text box, let the default font if it would
> fit my max size, otherwise try a narrow font and if that wasn’t enough
> decreased font size until it would fit.
>
> This time I've only one font and must not decrease font size, but must
> use negative kerning and perhaps some artificial narrowing.
> How can I do that with ConTeXt?
> I use MkIV, so any Lua solution is welcome.
\starttext
\definefontfeature[realugly][default][extend=0.25]
\definedfont[Serif*realugly] Only You Can Read This
\stoptext
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-17 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 11:25 Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-05-17 11:53 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-05-18 7:41 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-06-13 12:15 ` measuring alphabet length Christoph Redecker
2011-06-13 12:30 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-13 12:34 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-13 12:38 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-13 12:43 ` Christoph Redecker
2011-06-13 12:59 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-13 13:02 ` netiquette (was: measuring alphabet length) Paul Menzel
2011-06-13 13:14 ` measuring alphabet length Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-15 9:29 ` Hans Hagen
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