Re: [NTG-context] stretched text
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:32:53AM -0500, Bill McClain wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:06:10 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piotr Kopszak) wrote:
Hello,
I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently
formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations
and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is
it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have
it... (in spite of its ugliness).
It's still recommended in certain cases, for example in all capital or
small cap titles. Sometimes I do it and sometimes not.
You can do it in Context. See:
http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#typography-letterspacing
You might have to look into the sources to find other options.
-Bill
Right, but as far as I understand this solution:
\def\CapStretchAmount{.08em}
\def\CapStretch#1{\def\stretchedspaceamount{\CapStretchAmount}\stretchednormalcase{#1}}
Which is used as so:
\CapStretch{\sc The King in Yellow}
applies only to small caps?
Piotr
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Re: [NTG-context] stretched text
Hello,
Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Right, but as far as I understand this solution:
\def\CapStretchAmount{.08em}
\def\CapStretch#1{\def\stretchedspaceamount{\CapStretchAmount}\stretchednormalcase{#1}}
Which is used as so:
\CapStretch{\sc The King in Yellow}
applies only to small caps?
If you leave out the \sc, it works also for small letters:
\CapStretch{The King in Yellow}
Though one can argue that then the macros should be renamed:
\def\StretchAmount ...
\def\Stretch#1 ...
Tobias
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Re: [NTG-context] stretched text
Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Right, but as far as I understand this solution:
\def\CapStretchAmount{.08em}
\def\CapStretch#1{\def\stretchedspaceamount{\CapStretchAmount}\stretchednormalcase{#1}}
Which is used as so:
\CapStretch{\sc The King in Yellow}
applies only to small caps?
grep stretch core-fnt.tex
Hans
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[NTG-context] stretched text
Hello, I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have it... (in spite of its ugliness). Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] stretched text
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:06:10 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piotr Kopszak) wrote: Hello, I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have it... (in spite of its ugliness). It's still recommended in certain cases, for example in all capital or small cap titles. Sometimes I do it and sometimes not. You can do it in Context. See: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#typography-letterspacing You might have to look into the sources to find other options. -Bill -- Sattre PressIn the Quarter http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sattre-press.com/itq.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
