Am 09.01.2011 um 23:14 schrieb Paul Isambert: > Le 09/01/2011 19:33, Patrick Gundlach a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I am experimenting with the pdftex features (margin kerning and font >> expansion). So far I have only been able to make margin kerning to work. Now >> I tried font expansion but couldn't note any difference to what I have >> before. I set >> >> \pdfadjustspacing=2 >> >> and for the font I set the parameters to (for example) >> >> f.parameters.stretch = 30 >> f.parameters.shrink = 20 >> f.parameters.step = 10 >> f.parameters.auto_expand = true >> >> (where f is the font object for font.define(f)) >> >> Without posting a complete minimal example: can someone tell me if these >> parameters look OK or if I am missing anything "obvious"?
> I think, but might be completely mistaken, that they're ok... but wrong: > those parameters are not supposed to be set like that, but when the font is > created; i.e. there lacks what \pdffontexpand does, that is creating two > ghost fonts. In other words, once a font has been loaded, those parameters > are only informative, and changing them is useless. This _is_ while loading/creating the font. I am using a setup similar to http://wiki.luatex.org/index.php/Use_a_TrueType_font without going through the callback but directly defining the font: num = font.define(f) and then tex.definefont("name",num) \name this is in the font f So how to create the ghost fonts here? Patrick
