In LaTeX, there's a package called 'tracking' which provides a few
methods that will adjust letter spacing to fit a given chunk of text
content to a specified width.
I'd like to replicate the effect of:
\fittrack{66ex}{$chapter}
(where $chapter is likely to be a string that looks like "CHAPTER 9"
or "CHAPTER 102")
Since the length of the string will vary, a fixed letter-spacing size
for all of the headings will result in a different width for
single-digit chapters versus double-digit chapters (or triple-digit
chapters).
I was hoping that maybe I could do something like:
div.tracked {
width: 66ex;
letter-spacing: auto;
}
but that doesn't seem to work in any browsers I've tried, since 'auto'
isn't a valid value for the letter-spacing property.
Any ideas? I guess I could just center the text and then work out a
letter-spacing value that would be close enough for most things, but
that feels like cheating to me. :)
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