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I’m using Linux Libertine to typeset the translation of a poem with eledmac/eledpar. The original text appears on the left pages and the translation on the right ones. Since the translated verses are longer then the original once it happens often that a single word of the translated verse breaks in a new line. This is ok, but I thought about scaling the font of the translated font slightly in the vertical direction to create a poor man’s condensed version of Libertine.

I know that this is not the best way but I want at least see if it looks that bad.

\documentclass[parskip=full]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{libertine}

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{showframe,textwidth=70mm}

\begin{document}
This is a text that is a little to long for this line.

\addfontfeatures{Scale=0.965}
This is a text that is a little to long for this line.
\end{document}

scaled fonts

I’m aware of fontspec’s Width option, but it won’t work for Libertine and Scale affects width and height.

All solutions taking an argument (e.g. \scalebox) wont work here, because I can’t wrap all verses in such a macro. So I need a switch like \addfontfeature or something else.

Tobi
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2 Answers2

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Font feature FakeStrech might help:

\documentclass[parskip=full]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{libertine}

\begin{document}
This is a text that is a little to long for this line.

{\addfontfeatures{Scale=0.5}
This is a text that is a little to long for this line.}

{\addfontfeatures{FakeStretch=.5}
This is a text that is a little to long for this line.}

\end{document}

Result

Heiko Oberdiek
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\usepackage{letterspace}

\textls[-17]{This is a text that is a little to long for this line.}

Works for pdflatex.

user22108
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  • I’m using XeTeX, so this won’t help. Furthermore your solution will reduce the space between the letters but not the letter size itself … – Tobi Oct 09 '13 at 07:44