Hi,
When typesetting large text on small curves with lmt_followtext, the
letters start overlapping.
There is a parameter "spread=true", but that spreads the text to the full
curve, while I would only like to slightly increase the kerning between
individual characters.
Example:
\setupbodyfont
[antykwa,25pt]
\starttext
\startMPpage
draw lmt_followtext [
text = "{\bf this is somewhat squeezed}",
path = fullcircle scaled 5cm rotated 90,
trace = false,
spread = false,
reverse = false,
];
\stopMPpage
\stoptext
In theory luatex/metapost could probably calculate the amount of kerning
adjustment needed to avoid overlap of the letters based on height of the
letters and angle difference, but it would already be sufficient if I could
add a fixed amount of additional kerning between the individual letters.
Second question: is it possible to somehow combine lmt_outline and
lmt_followtext?
That is: how do I typeset outline letters on a curve?
Thank you,
Mojca
PS: I'm slightly confused about the documentation. Some elements are
strings, others are numeric, yet the default value seems to be boolean.
Based on other examples it looks like autoscaleup should be string rather
than numeric, and it would be really helpful to have a list of valid values
("yes", "max", ...). Though for some reason neither of them seemed to have
any effect for me.
spread string true
trace numeric false
reverse numeric false
autoscaleup numeric no
autoscaledown string no
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