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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Adjusting Kerning/Spacing between Letter
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 15:50:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5745AD94.6060407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2A06F2BE-F23C-4E06-8663-73941DE61417@uva.nl>


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> Meer, Hans van der <mailto:H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
> 25. Mai 2016 um 09:44
>
> I implemented it by redefining \tt:
> \definecharacterkerning[tight][factor=-.075]
> \let\oldtt=\tt
> \def\tt{\setcharacterkerning[tight]\oldtt}
>
> However, I find this a bit of a kludge. But opinions may differ, of 
> course.
> Can this be done in a more general way? For example by setting some 
> font feature?
\definefontfeature[condensed][extend=0.9]

\definefontfamily[normaltt][tt][Latin Modern 
Mono][designsize=auto,features=none]
\definefontfamily[narrowtt][tt][Latin Modern 
Mono][designsize=auto,features=condensed]

\starttext

\start
   \switchtobodyfont[normaltt]
   \input ward
\stop

\start
   \switchtobodyfont[narrowtt]
   \input ward
\stop

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-25 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-01 23:56 Malte Stien
2015-01-02 10:42 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-25  7:44   ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-05-25 13:50     ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2016-05-27  9:20     ` Hans Hagen

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