Re: [NTG-context] [MetaFun] Trying to understand outlinetext, 'stretch' effect and \kerncharacters

2022-01-01 Thread kauśika via ntg-context
On Saturday, January 1, 2022 3:45:36 PM IST Hans Hagen wrote: > \starteffect is kind of old (comes from mkii), but you could use the > pseudo font feature effect in mkiv / lmtx which then makes a real font > instance instead of mixing in some pdf magic Thanks for the explanations Hans! Happy new y

Re: [NTG-context] [MetaFun] Trying to understand outlinetext, 'stretch' effect and \kerncharacters

2022-01-01 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
draw twice; once with blownup) to get the text outline. Now, if I write instead \setupMPtext{TitleText}{% \kerncharacters[0.15]\bfc\namedstructurevariable{title}{title}} \useMPgraphic{TitleGraphic} tex magic so done in tex then the desired effect is produced. As such, my purpose is served well by us

Re: [NTG-context] [MetaFun] Trying to understand outlinetext, 'stretch' effect and \kerncharacters

2021-12-30 Thread kauśika via ntg-context
method instead. But in that > case I have to cheat (i.e draw twice; once with blownup) to get the text > outline. > > Now, if I write instead > > \setupMPtext{TitleText}{% > \kerncharacters[0.15]\bfc\namedstructurevariable{title}{title}} > \useMPgraphic{TitleGraphic} &

[NTG-context] [MetaFun] Trying to understand outlinetext, 'stretch' effect and \kerncharacters

2021-12-30 Thread kauśika via ntg-context
not work with 'outlinetext' method in the MPgraphic. I have verified that the desired effect is produced using 'textext' method instead. But in that case I have to cheat (i.e draw twice; once with blownup) to get the text outline. Now, if I write instead \setupMPtext{TitleText}

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] trouble with kerncharacters

2013-08-16 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–08–17 Dmitriy Tokarev wrote: > I noticed that after the command \kerncharacters, I can not use > the normal sequence "---" for em-dash. Is there any work around of > this effect? This is expected, since \kerncharacters breaks ligatures and the --- → — transformation i

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] trouble with kerncharacters

2013-08-16 Thread Dmitriy Tokarev
Hi, I noticed that after the command \kerncharacters, I can not use the normal sequence "---" for em-dash. Is there any work around of this effect? Thanks. \starttext One monolithic symbol: --- \kerncharacters[.5] Three separate symbol: --- \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] trouble with kerncharacters

2011-09-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-9-2011 14:44, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, "\kerncharacters" doesn't have an influence on interword space in current context version. Is this intended? it's a side effect of setting align to flushleft which makes the glue shrink ... i&

[NTG-context] trouble with kerncharacters

2011-09-06 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, "\kerncharacters" doesn't have an influence on interword space in current context version. Is this intended? Steffen --- \definehead[TopLevel] [chapter] \setuphead[TopLevel][style=\bf,textstyle={\kerncharacters[.75]}, align=flushleft,alternative=paragra

[NTG-context] kerncharacters

2010-10-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Wolfgang, how can I get negative character kerning? (\kerncharacters only seems to work with values <0) \starttext {\kerncharacters[0.02]include/inc-archive/materials/archive-material-newWind.asp?textPath=/documents/} {include/inc-archive/materials/archive-material-newWind.asp?textP