On 10 Mar 2008, at 1:50 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking bold and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that feature already). It's generally a bad idea to use it, but in case that you need it only for small portions of text (if you really have no other way out), it could be handy. (Slanted is less evil to use than "bold".)
The plain syntax is:
\font\a="Gentium" \font\b="Gentium:slant=0.2" % better: \font\b="Gentium/I" \font\c="Gentium:embolden=2" \font\d="Gentium:embolden=2;slant=0.2"
hm, so it's embolden? in that case we need a remap to extend
If I understand your question, extending the kerning for line thickness is missing, yes
If you want to loosen the letter spacing slightly, just use something like \font\a="Gentium:embolden=2;letterspace=2"
(but maybe not desired in monospace fonts or in Chinese, which is where the feature request came from,
Right, which is why it's not automatically applied. JK