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From: Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>
Subject: Re: vertical kerning for TwoThird needed
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:25:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8E77E0D1-131E-4671-87CF-BF8CD745DB09@st.estfiles.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44F74A48.9070502@gmx.net>

Ahh!  "\raise" and "\lower" ... these I've missed. Look like plain  
TeX commands, right?

Thank you Peter,

(immediately I go and get a copy of that TeXbook)

Steffen



Am 31.08.2006 um 22:44 schrieb Peter Rolf:

> Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> comparable to the pre-defined \threequarter I want to write a  
>> \TwoThird.
>>
>> The following looks quite good (with my respective font settings) ...
>>
>> \def\TwoThird{{\tx\high{\txx 2}}\kern-0.1em/\kern-0.1em{\txx 3}}
>>
>> ... but still the "2" is a bit to high.
>>
>> How can I adjust "vertikal kerning"?
>>
> \starttext
>
> \def\TwoThird{\raise.295em\hbox{\txx
> 2}\kern-0.23em/\kern-0.22em\lower.24em\hbox{\txx 3}}
>
> \ruledhbox{\threequarter\TwoThird}
>
> \stoptext
>
> I needed a break and this was really fun. Hope it fits your needs.
>
> Peter
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steffen
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-01 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 15:22 Steffen Wolfrum
2006-08-31 20:44 ` Peter Rolf
2006-09-01 11:25   ` Steffen Wolfrum [this message]
2006-09-01 14:05     ` Peter Rolf

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