Re: [NTG-context] \getscaledglyph for width-only

On Aug 17, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 8/17/2016 9:56 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote:

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Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to call \getscaledglyph to scale a glyph only horizontally, leaving the height untouched? Or maybe an alternate command?

I can sort of accomplish this with (for example) \scale[sx=0.75,sy=1.0]{}{A}, but that encloses the glyph in an \hbox, which can be problematic. \getscaledglyph doesn't cause me any problems, except that it scales the height too.

\starttext

\definefontfeature[whatever][default][extend=2.5]

\definedfont[Serif*whatever at 12pt]

whatever

\stoptext

Thank you. One thing that \getscaledglyph does it works agnostic to the currently selected font. For example: \starttext % This will print a sans “A” 1.5x larger than 12pt \switchtobodyfont[12pt,sans] \getscaledglyph{1.5}{}{A}\par % This will print a serif “A” 1.5x larger than 10pt \switchtobodyfont[10pt,serif] \getscaledglyph{1.5}{}{A}\par \stoptext I’m guessing there isn’t a way to use \definedfont in a similar fashion? Also, I noticed that \definedfont doesn’t seem to play nicely with \switchtobodyfont: \starttext \definefontfeature[whatever][default][extend=2.5] % This looks ok \switchtobodyfont[12pt,serif] {\definedfont[Serif*whatever at 12pt] what}ever\par % the “ever” is not printed properly, it overlaps itself \switchtobodyfont[10pt,serif] {\definedfont[Serif*whatever at 10pt] what}ever\par \stoptext Best, Brian