Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting Kerning/Spacing between Letter

27 May 2016


      On 5/25/2016 9:44 AM, Meer, Hans van der wrote:
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On 02 Jan 2015, at 11:42, Hans Hagen  wrote:
On 1/2/2015 12:56 AM, Malte Stien wrote:
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Hi,
I am trying to typeset some strings in {\tt ...}, but they turn out to be pretty wide. So, I would like to compress those bits of text a little. Any hints on how I could do that locally, that is without adjusting the entire font.
\starttext
   \definecharacterkerning[tight][factor=-.5]
test {\tt \setcharacterkerning[tight]tight} test
\stoptext
(Btw, there is a narrow monospaced lm font)
I implemented it by redefining \tt:
  \definecharacterkerning[tight][factor=-.075]
  \let\oldtt=\tt
  \def\tt{\setcharacterkerning[tight]\oldtt}
However, I find this a bit of a kludge. But opinions may differ, of course.
Can this be done in a more general way? For example by setting some font feature?
no, becasue it is independent of font features (and also less efficient 
that using a narrow tt font)

Hans

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