[XeTeX] Stretching glyphs vertically?

Will Robertson wspr81 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 03:35:20 CEST 2008


On 12/08/2008, at 9:52 AM, Steve Peter wrote:

> On Aug 11, 2008, at 8:06 PM, Robert Baruch wrote:
>
>> I spoke too soon :/
>>
>> Actually, it doesn't work so well when the title in its unstretched
>> font takes more than one line. Apparently applying \scalebox causes
>> the page boundary to be ignored :/
>
> Just manually break the title. That's common enough in typesetting.

Yep, either

\scalebox{1}[2]{Ugly}\\
\scalebox{1}[2]{Title}

or

\scalebox{1}[2]{\parbox{5cm}{Ugly Title}}

(untested)

You'll want to ensure that nothing funny gets done with this in the  
hyperref bookmarks or pdf metadata; you can use \texorpdfstring to do  
this.

Will
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