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From: Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Adjust kern for one character
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:33:56 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1d4c1cd-2d13-12ee-fcbe-3541002b6e7b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3198ad57-6581-0876-a111-dc76200d3d9b@rik.users.panix.com>

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
         }
     }
}
\stopluacode

\setupbodyfont[modern] % have to reload the font

\starttext

No Jokes!

\stoptext
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-23  2:33 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 [this message]
2019-12-23  2:34       ` Henri Menke
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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