From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Wrong spacing using stretch effect
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:20:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524A93F4.1010705@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131001080557.GB14768@homerow>
On 10/1/2013 10:05 AM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> On 2013–09–30 Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> these are unrelated mechanisms where the first one just does some
>> pdf magic ... no feedback to tex about widths (ok, i could write
>> something better but never had and still don't have a reason for
>> that kind of low level pdf based approach to be really deeply
>> integrated)
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I was looking for a way to do slight
> letter spacing without breaking ligatures and thought I could
> leverage the stretch effect for that.
well, we break ligatures because ligatures make no sense in that kind of
kerned text (if they make sense at all, but that's a different issue
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-01 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-25 10:32 Marco Patzer
2013-09-30 8:36 ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-01 8:05 ` Marco Patzer
2013-10-01 9:20 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-10-01 9:45 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-10-01 9:53 ` Philipp Gesang
2013-10-01 10:17 ` Marco Patzer
2013-10-01 17:58 ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-03 16:47 ` Hans Hagen
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