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- From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de (J%org Knappen)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: wider macro
- Message-ID: <01GTABWFS54W8WW81I@VzdmzA.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:57:54 GMT
- Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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- Keyword: S p e r r s a t z
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- The design of a \wider macro is indeed an interesting task. Wider
- tyepsetting is called {\em Sperrsatz} in german typography and is (was?)
- traditionally used for emphasis. Italic type was used to denote borrowed
- foreing words or phrases in their original language.
-
- However, good Sperrsatz has some characteristics which look hard to achieve
- by a TeX macro:
- * It shall allow hyphenation.
- * Some ligatures are spaced out, but other remain. This feature is font
- and language dependent, in german fraktur typesetting the ligatures
- ch, ck and \ss remain, all others are separated.
-
- It looks like a good field of an apllication of virtual fonts, just add
- some space to the right and left of the letters and than chose the VF
- cmrs10 (Computer Modern Roman Sperrsatz 10) for Sperrsatz...
-
- Yours, J"org Knappen.
-
- P.S. the font cmrs10.vf does not exist yet.
-