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

On 8/18/2016 1:12 AM, Brian R. Landy wrote:

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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:

scaling glyphs in one direction is kind of bad anyway so if you want just one glyph you can do \inframed{\scale[width=3em,height=1ex]{...}} or whatever suits the purpose

\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?

\definedfont[Serif*whatever sa 1.5]

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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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