Re: Inter-letter spacing
Mark Summerfield <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.type-setting.lout |
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| Organization | Qtrac Ltd. |
| Message-ID | <20130102085124.1548e642@dino> |
Hi Martin, On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 00:40:05 +0100 [email protected] wrote: > Hi there, > > after gaining some experience with Latex and groff I am curious about > Lout. At first glance it looks very promising to me. I just stumbled > about the issue of adjusting the inter-letter spacing of words. How is > this done in Lout? Basically, I want some characters to overlap and some > to have larger then normal spacings within one word. Look in the Experts Guide section 3.2, and in particular Figure 3.2 on lout's "gap modes". The one you want is o (overstrike). For example: An O with a dot in it:~{O |0co @CDot} untested! The 0c part is a length (0 centimetres) and the o is overstrike. HTH -- Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu C++, Python, Qt, PyQt - training and consultancy "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" - ISBN 0132354187 http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html