On 12/23/19 3:33 PM, Henri Menke wrote:
On 12/23/19 2:30 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
On 12/22/2019 17:40, mf wrote:
Il 22/12/19 22:19, Rik Kabel ha scritto:
List,
Is there a way in ConTeXt to adjust the left-side kern for one character? The cap J in the font I am using is being set too close to the preceding characters and I would rather not insert a thinspace before each. (Inserting a thinspace is sufficient, but finer control is welcome.)
\definecharacterspacing[distantJ] \setupcharacterspacing[distantJ]["004A][left=.15,alternative=1] % 004A is the unicode hex index of letter J \starttext normal: AJB\par \setcharacterspacing[distantJ] more space on the left: AJB\par \resetcharacterspacing normal again: AJB\par \stoptext
Thank you for that, Massi.
Unfortunately, that is too blunt an instrument in this case -- in addition to the body font where the problem exists, it works on the heading and titling font, which does not share the problem.
As Henri's answer hints, I was a bit unclear in my request. It is a kern between a word space and the cap J that is the issue. Perhaps a font feature file is the place to do such a thing.
\startluacode fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature { name = "kern", type = "kern", data = { [" "] = { ["J"] = 1000 % exaggerated value
Should of course be a Lua comment ["J"] = 1000 -- exaggerated value
} } } \stopluacode
\setupbodyfont[modern] % have to reload the font
\starttext
No Jokes!
\stoptext