man: some quotes; section on capitals

1 files changed, 63 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/letterspace.tex b/letterspace.tex
index df70922..6e80459 100644
--- a/letterspace.tex
+++ b/letterspace.tex
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
   liga=yes,
 ]
 
+\usetypescript [modern]
 \usetypescript [antykwa-poltawskiego]
 \setupbodyfont [antykwa-poltawskiego,10pt]
 
@@ -68,7 +69,8 @@
 \setupbodyfontenvironment [default] [em=italic]
 
 \def\quote#1{\bgroup\italic#1\egroup}
-\def\uprightslash{\bgroup\rm/\egroup}
+\def\uprightslash{\bgroup\tf/\egroup}
+\def\uprightomiss{\bgroup\tf[\dots]\egroup}
 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 % Presenting the Interface                                      %
@@ -432,7 +434,18 @@
 Robert \name{Bringhurst} quotes Frederick \name{Goudy}’s famous
 dictum on the topic of letterspacing: \quote{A man who would
 letterspace lowercase would steal sheep.}\footnote{\ctay{bh},
-S.~31.}
+p.~31.}
+Likewise other judgements:
+\quote{Letter spacing is a form of markup particularly hard
+to handle, that only master typographers should get involved
+with.}\footnote{\ctay{lt}, p.~126.}
+And another:
+\quote{Letter spacing is disapproved of in the same way as of
+capitals \uprightomiss~.}\footnote{\ctay{roemer}, p.~10.}
+This module is partly a reaction on the excellent article the
+last quotation was taken from, and partly the endeavour of a
+convinced \CONTEXT\ user and letter spacer to replace a number of
+kludges already in use with something more consistent.
 
 \chapter{Commands}
 
@@ -516,7 +529,18 @@ semi bold weights cause text to stand out from the surrounding
 paragraph, diverting the readers attention away from its normal
 trail along successive lines.
 Besides, the more a text is intermingled with different weights,
-the closer it resembles the look of a dictionary.
+the closer it resembles the look of a dictionary.\footnote{%
+  \ctay{lt}, p.~122 distinguish \te{active} from \te{integrated}
+  markup.
+  Semi bold and underling belong to the former, italics and slant
+  to the latter.
+  As the effect of letter spacing heavily depends on the
+  environment, it may count as active when used as the only means
+  of emphasis.
+  However, in a “colorful” product with many different layers of
+  emphasis it might not stick out as much among the others and
+  thus count as integrated (cf. p.~126).%
+}
 
 After these deliberations the validity of \te{letterspacing,}
 including lower case, as a means of emphasis is already half
@@ -568,9 +592,42 @@ tighter-spaced character.
 good: \te{O Tite,} tute, \te{Tati,} tibi tanta, \te{tyranne,} tulisti.)
 
 \section{Capital Spacing}
-
-\section{Don’t’s}
--- different letterspace widths for the same meaning
+\startbuffer [display:capitals]
+  \start%
+  \setupbodyfont [modern,12pt]%
+  \framed[
+    align=middle,
+    background=color,
+    backgroundcolor=gray:1,
+    offset=1em,
+    frame=off,
+  ]{%
+      \def\teststring{pavaway}%
+      %\definefontfeature [capitals] [cpsp=yes,kern=yes]% how’s this supposed to work?
+      \definefontfeature [kerning] [kern=yes]%
+      \bf%
+      {\color[gray:7]\WORD\teststring}\par
+      %{\setff{capitals}\WORD\teststring}\par % why doesn’t this have
+                                              %an effect with *any* font?
+      {\color[gray:8]\subff{kerning}\WORD\teststring}\par
+      {\color[gray:9]\largecaps{\WORD\teststring}}\par
+  }
+  \stop%
+\stopbuffer
+
+\starthangaround{\getbuffer [display:capitals]}
+Another natural use of letter spacing is to even out capitals and
+small caps, whose legibility suffers with increasing markup
+length.
+The appearance of capitals can be influenced in various ways, as
+demonstrated in the illustration to the left.
+In the first row, no modification is applied and the capitals are
+placed with full kerning.
+Row number two has the kerning removed and thus the distance between
+letters increases.
+The final row, as the second, lacks kerning and adds
+20\,\letterpercent\ letter spacing.
+\stophangaround
 
 
 \title{References}