[luatex] How to letter space font?

luigi scarso luigi.scarso at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 10:42:35 CEST 2018


On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:25 AM Ulrike Fischer <luatex at nililand.de> wrote:

> Am Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:50:01 +0200 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I need to insert little spaces between characters / glyphs in a
> > word. If I understand the manual correctly, there was a primitive
> > \letterspacefont in pdftex doing that. Is there something similar
> > in LuaTeX? (I have never used the PDFTeX's command).
>
> the command exists in luatex too. But there was a bug in 1.07 (and
> in some version of 1.08) and it failed for tfm-fonts with virtual
> fonts.
>
> as far as I know, there should be only one version of luatex 1.08


>
> \input luaotfload.sty
> \font\1="name:SourceSansPro-Regular" at 10pt %
> \1 aaa
>
> \letterspacefont\2\1 100
> \2 aaa
>
> \bye
>
>
does it fails at you end ?
Here it seems ok (texlive 2018)

-- 
luigi
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