Re: [NTG-context] Intraword spacing proof of concept

2008-08-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Charles P. Schaum wrote: Hi all, Quite a while ago I mentioned letter spacing, or the normal absence thereof, in TeX and friends. True, you could skin this cat by mathematically scaling the text (font size) by steps to fit the box --- the code is out there. But that was not the only way,

Re: [NTG-context] Intraword spacing proof of concept

2008-08-15 Thread Charles P. Schaum
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 09:49 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: in my opinion letterspacing only makes sense in titles, not in the main body of text (i consider kerning to be part of the font design) Thanks, Hans! Actually titles is where I would have used it. ;-) I generally agree with you there.

[NTG-context] Intraword spacing proof of concept

2008-08-14 Thread Charles P. Schaum
Hi all, Quite a while ago I mentioned letter spacing, or the normal absence thereof, in TeX and friends. True, you could skin this cat by mathematically scaling the text (font size) by steps to fit the box --- the code is out there. But that was not the only way, thought I. Some programs also