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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Tracking?
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 09:31:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90EB29AB-DBAE-4840-B0F1-794106B8F863@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900902061829g149a8e54r26f5a4afaa3caac3@mail.gmail.com>


Am 07.02.2009 um 03:29 schrieb Yue Wang:

>>> i have no clue what you mean with tracking
>>
>> He means the letterspacing feature from pdfTeX.
>
> Wolfgang is right. And are there such higher level macros in ConTeXt?

In MkII it is integrated in the font handling mechanism
like protrusion and hz. To stretch words or short sentences
the \stretched command could be used.

In MkIV you can use \setcharacterkerning, you can use it like
the \lsseries command.

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-07  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-06 14:21 Tracking? Yue Wang
2009-02-06 18:28 ` Tracking? Hans Hagen
2009-02-06 18:35   ` Tracking? Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-07  2:29     ` Tracking? Yue Wang
2009-02-07  8:31       ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2009-02-07 13:15       ` Tracking? Hans Hagen
2009-02-07 14:01         ` Tracking? Yue Wang
2009-02-07 17:11           ` Tracking? Hans Hagen
2009-02-07 19:07             ` Tracking? Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-08  3:48               ` Tracking? Yue Wang
2009-02-08  9:45                 ` Tracking? Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-08 15:49                   ` Tracking? Yue Wang
2009-02-08 16:15                     ` Tracking? Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-08 16:52                       ` Tracking? Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-08 17:24                         ` Tracking? Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-09  2:42                           ` Tracking? Yue Wang
2009-02-08 11:05                 ` Tracking? Hans Hagen
2009-02-08  3:47             ` Tracking? Yue Wang

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