From: Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Adjust kerning with superscript
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:23:51 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6713e9cb-df63-8533-5000-ee3d0b032d75@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1375534-d8a0-f399-cddd-56ae3bb123c8@xs4all.nl>
On 15/04/19 9:06 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 4/15/2019 9:50 AM, Henri Menke wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am unhappy with how some fonts kern particular subscripts. For example in
>> the default Latin Modern, subscripts to the Greek capital gamma could use some
>> negative kerning. Because I can't (and don't want to) fix the font, I thought
>> that I could patch the font on-the-fly in ConTeXt.
>>
>> The usual approach with fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature works well in math mode,
>> but does not extend into subscripts (MWE below). Is there a method to adjust
>> subscript kernings? Could this be done using mathkerns? Latin Modern doesn't
>> have any but maybe they can be added on the fly.
>>
>> Cheers, Henri
>>
>> ---
>>
>> \startluacode
>> fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature {
>> type = "kern",
>> name = "kern",
>> data = { [0x0393] = { [0x0030] = -200 } }
>> }
>> \stopluacode
>>
>> \setupbodyfont[modern]
>>
>> \starttext
>> $\Gamma0$ % works fine :)
>>
>> $\Gamma_0$ % doesn't work :(
>> \stoptext
> see pagella-math.lfg
Thanks for the hint. Is there a possibility to do this without goodies? They
are not available in generic.
Cheers, Henri
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-15 7:50 Henri Menke
2019-04-15 9:06 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-15 9:23 ` Henri Menke [this message]
2019-04-15 9:48 ` Hans Hagen
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