[XeTeX] Problem with XeTeX letterspacing
Stephen Moye
stephenmoye at mac.com
Wed Jun 7 15:21:17 CEST 2006
Thank you for the fix!
Sorry for the double posting -- sometimes it seems to take forever for my mail to reach the group.
Thanks again!
SGM
On Wednesday, June 07, 2006, at 09:05AM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
>On 7 Jun 2006, at 12:33 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> I am having a problem with the neat letterspacing function of XeTeX.
>> If I indicate that I want letterspacing using a given font, then the
>> next font is reduced in size:
>>
>> \font\rm="Doves-roman" at 22pt \rm
>> %% Here is the problem: use the letterspaced caps font and the title
>> %% font text is tiny; use the caps font without the letterspacing, and
>> %% text using the \title font appears at the correct size.
>> \font\caps="Doves-roman:letterspace=5.0" at 22pt
>> %\font\caps="Doves-roman" at 22pt\rm
>> \font\title="DovesTitle" at 63pt
>>
>> I have placed sample files in an archive for downloading:
>>
>> http://homepage.mac.com/stephenmoye/FileSharing7.html
>>
>> A puzzle.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>
>OK, I have a workaround for you, though this is obviously a bug (and
>has just been fixed in my code here). Just add an explicit
>"letterspace=0" to the next font declaration.
>
>JK
>
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