From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Microtypography in ConTeXt
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:37:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5704BCA2.8010400@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40AA119C-EF26-4261-AE1E-21522235EA25@fiee.net>
On 4/6/2016 6:48 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Am 2016-04-06 um 03:51 schrieb Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky@email.cz>:
>
>> <cite>
>> Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX (version 0.14f or later), LuaTeX, or
>> XeTeX (at least version 0.9997). Font expansion works with pdfTeX (version 1.20 for
>> automatic expansion) or LuaTeX. The package will by default enable protrusion and
>> expansion if they can safely be assumed to work. Disabling ligatures requires pdfTeX
>> (≥ 1.30) or LuaTeX,
>>
>> ************************************************
>> while the adjustment of interword spacing
>> and of kerning only works with pdfTeX (≥ 1.40).
>>
>> *************************************************
>>
>> Letterspacing is available with pdfTeX (≥ 1.40) or LuaTeX (≥ 0.62).
>> </cite>
>
> Looks like it’s not about interword spacing and kerning in itself, but their *adjustment*.
>
> I didn’t look into that docs, but I’d assume, tracking refers to some logging or visualization of spacing.
> AFAIR ConTeXt can do that very nicely (while I never used it and don’t know how to enable it).
\starttext
\start
\showfontkerns \showmakeup[glue]
\input tufte \par
\stop
\stoptext
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[not found] <019d01d18f7d$6e3954b0$4aabfe10$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2016-04-05 21:11 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-05 21:51 ` Jan Tosovsky
[not found] ` <01b601d18f85$61ccf760$2566e620$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2016-04-06 4:48 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2016-04-06 7:37 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-04-06 7:35 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-06 19:03 ` Jan Tosovsky
[not found] ` <01e801d19036$f10845e0$d318d1a0$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2016-04-06 19:37 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-05 20:55 Jan Tosovsky
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