From: Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: vertical bar spacing in Antykwa-Poltawskiego
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:24:56 -0400 [thread overview]
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Thanks, Wolfgang. I will start experimenting.
Alan
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 23.07.2013 um 15:42 schrieb Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@gmail.com>:
>
> > Wolfgang, Hans—many thanks to you both!
> >
> > Part of the problem was that i was using \| instead of \textbar. I now
> have:
> >
> > \setupbodyfont[antykwa-poltawskiego]
> >
> > \def\test
> > {\ifnum\lastnodetype=\gluenodecode
> > \|
> > \else
> > \textbar
> > \fi}
> >
> > \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]
> >
> > \starttext
> > left\test middle \test right
> >
> > \stoptext
> >
> > which looks good on the page—\quad\textbar\quad puts too much space
> around the bar.
>
> You can use \letterbar instead of \|. \textbar and \letterbar produce
> different output because
> \letterbar is taken from the text font which has padding on the left and
> right side while \textbar
> is taken from the math font which has no padding.
>
> When you don’t like the extra space around | I suggest to use another font
> which fits your taste
> and use \letterbar in both cases (just add some space on the left/right
> between word).
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-23 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-23 11:20 Alan Bowen
2013-07-23 11:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-07-23 11:46 ` Hans Hagen
2013-07-23 13:42 ` Alan Bowen
2013-07-23 14:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-07-23 15:24 ` Alan Bowen [this message]
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