[XeTeX] Any progress on letterspacing in xetex?
John Was
john.was at ntlworld.com
Fri Jun 15 09:58:29 CEST 2007
Is there a list of XeTeX font primitives anywhere? I keep 'discovering' new
tricks in these e-mails!
Best
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Robertson" <wspr81 at gmail.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:53 AM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Any progress on letterspacing in xetex?
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 6/15/07, Paul Howson <paul at tdgq.com.au> wrote:
>> Last year there was some discussion about adding a letterspacing
>> (tracking) facility to xetex. Has anything further been done towards
>> that?
>
> Yes, this feature was added relatively soon after that discussion. If
> you're using LaTeX (i.e., fontspec), see the LetterSpace feature. For
> example,
> \fontspec[LetterSpace=1.0]{Helvetica}
> will add tracking between each letter with an additional 1% of the font
> size.
>
> The XeTeX font primitive that corresponds to this is
> \font\x="Helvetica:letterspace=1.0" at 10pt\x
>
> Will
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