Re: [NTG-context] Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote
Hallo! In order to understand the appended puzzle, I am looking for documentations about: \definefonthandling \startfonthandling \usehandling I have found the example about 'hanging punctuation', but I could'nt even understand this example. What ist the correlation between 'punctuation', 'alpha' and 'def'????
I have tried that, but with strange results:
\startfonthandling[cmrfix] \definecharacter quotedblbase {,\kern -.1em,} \stopfonthandling
%\setupfontsynonym[Serif][handling=cmrfix]
\setupbodyfont[14pt] \starttext \mainlanguage[de] \startquotation To \TEX\ or not to \TEX. \stopquotation \stoptext
The definition of quotedblbase in line two is used without even activating the cmrfix font-handler. How do I use the handler properly?
On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:15 pm, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
Hallo!
In order to understand the appended puzzle, I am looking for documentations about:
\definefonthandling \startfonthandling \usehandling
I have found the example about 'hanging punctuation', but I could'nt even understand this example. What ist the correlation between 'punctuation', 'alpha' and 'def'????
I have been able to use optical alignment in pdfetex by reading carefully Han The Thanh's dissertation, but I haven't puzzled out the Context implementation. Perhaps someone who has could post an example that works for them. John Culleton
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 09:07:32 -0500
John Culleton
I have been able to use optical alignment in pdfetex by reading carefully Han The Thanh's dissertation, but I haven't puzzled out the Context implementation. Perhaps someone who has could post an example that works for them.
I've attached an example where I've hand-tuned the margin kerning for Sabon. Note this is just my subjective evaluation; I adjust the parameters from time to time and the script is always "in progress". If anyone wants to see the resulting pdf, just mail me. It's only 29k but I didn't want to clog the list further. Very important: note the [hanging] typescript at the bottom of type-sabon.tex. It won't work without that. This is also described in the "margin kerning" section at: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html -Bill -- Sattre Press Curiosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/ by Garrett Serviss info@sattre-press.com http://csky.sattre-press.com/
At 10:15 PM 3/8/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Hallo!
In order to understand the appended puzzle, I am looking for documentations about:
\definefonthandling \startfonthandling \usehandling
I have found the example about 'hanging punctuation', but I could'nt even understand this example. What ist the correlation between 'punctuation', 'alpha' and 'def'????
hanging punctuation is the traditional simple model of - , ; : . and ! hanging into the margin; pdftex goes beyond that and let's you hang any char into the margin, so this is why we speak of character protruding; fonthandling in context is currently used for hanging things but can be used for anything font related; the alpha, def etc setups are more or less derived from my personal prferences, thanh's thesis etc What you use all depends on your taste Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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