On 10/1/2013 10:05 AM, Marco Patzer wrote:
On 2013–09–30 Hans Hagen wrote:
these are unrelated mechanisms where the first one just does some pdf magic ... no feedback to tex about widths (ok, i could write something better but never had and still don't have a reason for that kind of low level pdf based approach to be really deeply integrated)
Thanks for the explanation. I was looking for a way to do slight letter spacing without breaking ligatures and thought I could leverage the stretch effect for that.
well, we break ligatures because ligatures make no sense in that kind of kerned text (if they make sense at all, but that's a different issue Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------