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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Letterspacing
Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 18:49:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d04186b6-f542-0a52-300a-7374aeb77cb1@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <574B1A8F.3000702@fehige.de>

On 5/29/2016 6:36 PM, Thomas Fehige wrote:
> I'm still trying to understand some ConTeXt ways of doing things, being
> a kind of LaTeX native myself. I bought the context-fonts manual, but
> still can't figure out how to implement a macro that does the simple(?)
> following, especially item 3:
>
> 1. Make #1 uppercase [OK, in simple situations I could just type the
> uppercase letters]
> 2. change #1's color to xxx [not a problem]
> 3. apply an amount of letterspacing to the capitalized #1 that I can
> specify myself.
>
> Maybe I'm only using the wrong search term, maybe the letterspace
> feature is well hidden in the documentation, maybe it doesn't exist: I
> simply don't know and don't see a way to find out. \stretched is not an
> answer.

\starttext

some words

\WORD{some words}

\definecharacterkerning[mine][factor=0.5]
\definecharacterkerning[less][factor=0.05]
\definecharacterkerning[more][factor=0.1]

\WORD{\setcharacterkerning[mine]some words}

{\setcharactercasing[WORD]\setcharacterkerning[mine]some words}

{\setcharactercasing[Words]\setcharacterkerning[less]some words}

{\setcharactercasing[Words]\setcharacterkerning[more]some words}

\stoptext


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-29 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-29 10:35 issue in the wiki Pablo Rodriguez
2016-05-29 15:31 ` Mohammad Hossein Bateni
2016-05-29 16:36   ` Letterspacing Thomas Fehige
2016-05-29 16:49     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-05-31  8:31   ` issue in the wiki Pablo Rodriguez
2016-06-06  8:11     ` Partial \framed Thomas Fehige
2016-06-06 10:32       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-06-06 12:14         ` Thomas Fehige
2016-06-06 14:04           ` basic fontsizes question Thomas Fehige
2016-06-06 14:05           ` Thomas Fehige
2016-06-06 14:20             ` Thomas Fehige
2016-06-06 20:48             ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-06-08  8:35               ` Thomas Fehige
2016-06-08  9:11                 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-06-08 12:40                   ` Thomas Fehige

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