Am Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:48:10 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 15-6-2011 10:59, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>
>> With ConTeXt ver: 2011.06.13 23:08 MKIV fmt: 2011.6.15 (from the
>> minimals) the following fails:
>
> I have to admit that I never used \letterspacefont (luatex offers it as
> a pdftex compatibility feature and as such it's strongly related to
> traditional font handling). The command makes a copy of an internal
> (tfm) + adapted metrics.
>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \font\test=file:fxlr.otf
>> \test abc \letterspacefont\lspfont=\font 500 \lspfont blub
>
> base mode i.e. traditional, so it works
> So, when someone wants that feature he/she'd better force basemode which
> is no big deal as letterspacing is selectively applied to often known /
> specially defined fonts.
Ah. Ok that explains it. This means that in latex/fontspec it works
with \setmainfont[Renderer=basic]{...}.
> Anyhow, context users will not use that command / method but instead use
> \kerncharacters[fraction], as in:
>
> {test {\kerncharacters[.5] test \bf test} test}
\kerncharacters is define in typo-krn. As far as I can see from
luatex-fonts.lua the generic code doesn't load typo-krn. Does that
mean that letterspacing in node-mode with latex would need some new
code?
--
Ulrike Fischer
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