Hello, I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have it... (in spite of its ugliness). Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/
Hi,
I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have it... (in spite of its ugliness).
See: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20020215.201212.09ddd4a6.html Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:06:10 +0200 kopszak@mnw.art.pl (Piotr Kopszak) wrote:
Hello,
I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have it... (in spite of its ugliness).
It's still recommended in certain cases, for example in all capital or small cap titles. Sometimes I do it and sometimes not. You can do it in Context. See: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#typography-letterspac... You might have to look into the sources to find other options. -Bill -- Sattre Press In the Quarter http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers info@sattre-press.com http://sattre-press.com/itq.html
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:32:53AM -0500, Bill McClain wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:06:10 +0200 kopszak@mnw.art.pl (Piotr Kopszak) wrote:
Hello,
I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have it... (in spite of its ugliness).
It's still recommended in certain cases, for example in all capital or small cap titles. Sometimes I do it and sometimes not.
You can do it in Context. See:
http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#typography-letterspac...
You might have to look into the sources to find other options.
-Bill
Right, but as far as I understand this solution: \def\CapStretchAmount{.08em} \def\CapStretch#1{\def\stretchedspaceamount{\CapStretchAmount}\stretchednormalcase{#1}} Which is used as so: \CapStretch{\sc The King in Yellow} applies only to small caps? Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/
Hello, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Right, but as far as I understand this solution: \def\CapStretchAmount{.08em} \def\CapStretch#1{\def\stretchedspaceamount{\CapStretchAmount}\stretchednormalcase{#1}}
Which is used as so:
\CapStretch{\sc The King in Yellow}
applies only to small caps?
If you leave out the \sc, it works also for small letters: \CapStretch{The King in Yellow} Though one can argue that then the macros should be renamed: \def\StretchAmount ... \def\Stretch#1 ... Tobias
Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Right, but as far as I understand this solution:
\def\CapStretchAmount{.08em} \def\CapStretch#1{\def\stretchedspaceamount{\CapStretchAmount}\stretchednormalcase{#1}}
Which is used as so:
\CapStretch{\sc The King in Yellow}
applies only to small caps?
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