From: Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Adjust kern for one character
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:34:55 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73379dce-058d-7f04-79ed-1ad555a970ea@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1d4c1cd-2d13-12ee-fcbe-3541002b6e7b@gmail.com>
On 12/23/19 3:33 PM, Henri Menke wrote:
> On 12/23/19 2:30 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
>>
>> On 12/22/2019 17:40, mf wrote:
>>> Il 22/12/19 22:19, Rik Kabel ha scritto:
>>>> List,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way in ConTeXt to adjust the left-side kern for one
>>>> character? The cap J in the font I am using is being set too close to
>>>> the preceding characters and I would rather not insert a thinspace
>>>> before each. (Inserting a thinspace is sufficient, but finer control
>>>> is welcome.)
>>>>
>>> \definecharacterspacing[distantJ]
>>> \setupcharacterspacing[distantJ]["004A][left=.15,alternative=1] % 004A
>>> is the unicode hex index of letter J
>>> \starttext
>>> normal: AJB\par
>>> \setcharacterspacing[distantJ] more space on the left: AJB\par
>>> \resetcharacterspacing normal again: AJB\par
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>> Thank you for that, Massi.
>>
>> Unfortunately, that is too blunt an instrument in this case -- in
>> addition to the body font where the problem exists, it works on the
>> heading and titling font, which does not share the problem.
>>
>> As Henri's answer hints, I was a bit unclear in my request. It is a kern
>> between a word space and the cap J that is the issue. Perhaps a font
>> feature file is the place to do such a thing.
>
> \startluacode
> fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature {
> name = "kern",
> type = "kern",
> data = {
> [" "] = {
> ["J"] = 1000 % exaggerated value
Should of course be a Lua comment
["J"] = 1000 -- exaggerated value
> }
> }
> }
> \stopluacode
>
> \setupbodyfont[modern] % have to reload the font
>
> \starttext
>
> No Jokes!
>
> \stoptext
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-23 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-22 21:19 Rik Kabel
2019-12-22 21:28 ` Henri Menke
2019-12-23 9:13 ` Mojca Miklavec
2019-12-23 9:31 ` Hans Hagen
2019-12-22 22:40 ` mf
2019-12-23 1:30 ` Rik Kabel
2019-12-23 2:33 ` Henri Menke
2019-12-23 2:34 ` Henri Menke [this message]
2019-12-23 23:45 ` Rik Kabel
2019-12-26 12:41 ` Rik Kabel
2019-12-26 13:40 ` Hans Hagen
2019-12-26 14:34 ` Rik Kabel
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