Re: [NTG-context] Characters per inch with ConTexT

2007-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: That is what I found. Can I tweak spacefactor and spaceskip to give an impression that there are 15 cpi. you can create a shinked font i.e. make an instance with .85% wide chars (contrary to an extended one) I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and

Re: [NTG-context] Characters per inch with ConTexT

2007-02-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and others are blindly copying them. Maybe, I should typeset everything in monotype font :) I remember we had a ball-based typewriter at Kluwer Academic that had variable width characters as well as different

[NTG-context] Characters per inch with ConTexT

2007-02-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I am writing a document where the guidelines say that I should use Times Roman font at 10pt with 15 characters per inch and 6 lines per inch. I am using thermes from tex gyre rscaled=1.015 as the bodyfont. At this setting I get a bit more less than 6 lines per inch (which is fine) but