[XeTeX] Emulating font extension

Vadim Radionov vadim.radionov at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 16:31:54 CEST 2009


It's Ubuntu hardy haron (2.6.24-16-generic).  It has rather old .996
xetex with texlive-2007, so I built it from repository today.

Another test on my installation shows that being enclosed in \fbox,
the enormously extended text protrudes to the right outside the box,
while the stretched one leaves some white space on the right.

Vadim

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Jonathan Kew<jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 18 Jun 2009, at 11:23, Vadim Radionov wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Thank you for the great engine!
>>
>> I'm wondering what exactly the "extend" pseudo-feature does: if set
>> unreasonably big (say, 2), the interword spacing shrinks to zero and
>> even negative, and if it is as small as .5, the space is doubled or
>> so.  I suppose it changes the spacing for "normal" values of 1.01 or
>> .99 too, so I would like to know how to correct it by changing the
>> space by some amount.
>>
>> I use XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9994.0 (Web2C 7.5.6)
g>
>
> Something is wrong there.... the interword spacing should scale along with
> the glyphs. I just tried a small test:
>
>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.6 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> **\relax
>> entering extended mode
>>
>> *\font\x="Times Roman:extend=2" at 12pt \x The quick brown fox jumps over
>> the lazy dog.
>>
>> *\font\y="Times Roman:extend=0.5" at 12pt \y Pack my box with five dozen
>> liquor jugs.
>>
>> *\bye
>> [1]
>> Output written on texput.pdf (1 page).
>
> The result looks fine here (well, it looks ugly but that's expected!). What
> system are you running on?
>
> JK
>
>
>


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