Re: Inter-letter spacing

Mark Summerfield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
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

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Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu
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