Here is an example of what I would like to obtain:
I know how to manipulate boxes to scale the 'E' and to lower it, but is there a package to perform this kind of asymmetrical stretch, or apply scaling only to a part of the box?
Here is an example of what I would like to obtain:
I know how to manipulate boxes to scale the 'E' and to lower it, but is there a package to perform this kind of asymmetrical stretch, or apply scaling only to a part of the box?
Example with TikZ:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
baseline=(T.base),
line cap=round,
semithick,
inner sep=1pt,
]
\pgfmathsetmacro\WidthE{0.75*width("E")}
\def\SerifWidth{1.25pt}
\node (T) {%
\hspace{\WidthE pt}\vphantom{\"E}% width and height of "E"
arth%
\hspace{-1pt}\null % inner sep subtracted from the right
};
\draw (T.north east) -- (T.north west) -- (T.south west) -- (T.south east)
(T.west) -- ++(\WidthE pt,0)
;
\draw (T.north east) -- +(\SerifWidth,\SerifWidth)
(T.north west) -- +(-\SerifWidth,\SerifWidth)
(T.south west) -- +(-\SerifWidth,-\SerifWidth)
(T.south east) -- +(\SerifWidth,-\SerifWidth)
;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Some improvements:
Package pict2e
gets rid of many restrictions of LaTeX's picture
mode
(e.g. more sizes, slopes, ... for circles, lines, ...).
Round line caps can be simulated by small filled circles.
Bounding box corrected.
Smaller serifs.
Full example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pict2e}
\begin{document}
\begin{picture}(71.5,41.5)(14.25,4.25)
\linethickness{1.5pt}
\put(20,10){\line(0,1){30}}
\put(20,10){\line(1,0){60}}
\put(20,40){\line(1,0){60}}
\put(20,25){\line(1,0){15}}
\put(20,10){\line(-1,-1){5}}
\put(80,10){\line(1,-1){5}}
\put(20,40){\line(-1,1){5}}
\put(80,40){\line(1,1){5}}
\put(20,10){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(20,40){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(35,25){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(80,10){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(80,40){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(15,5){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(15,45){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(85,5){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(85,45){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(37,15){\Huge arth}
\end{picture}
\end{document}
\usepackage{pict2e}
\begin{document}
\begin{picture}(71.5,41.5)(14.25,4.25)
\linethickness{1.5pt}
\put(20,10){\line(0,1){30}}
\put(20,10){\line(1,0){60}}
\put(20,40){\line(1,0){60}}
\put(20,25){\line(1,0){15}}
\put(20,10){\line(-1,-1){5}}
\put(80,10){\line(1,-1){5}}
\put(20,40){\line(-1,1){5}}
\put(80,40){\line(1,1){5}}
\put(20,10){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(20,40){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(35,25){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(80,10){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(80,40){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(15,5){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(15,45){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(85,5){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(85,45){\circle*{1.5}}
\put(37,15){\Huge arth}
\end{picture}
\end{document}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pict2e}
\usepackage{color}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\newcommand*{\red}[1]{\ifnum#1=\redstatus\color{red}\fi}
\newcommand*{\redflash}[1]{%
\chardef\redstatus=#1\relax
\begin{picture}(71.5,41.5)(14.25,4.25)
\linethickness{1.5pt}
\put(20,10){\red2\red3\red4\circle*{1.5}}
\put(20,40){\red4\red6\red7\circle*{1.5}}
\put(20,25){\red5\circle*{1.5}}
\put(35,25){\red5\circle*{1.5}}
\put(80,10){\red1\red2\circle*{1.5}}
\put(80,40){\red7\red8\circle*{1.5}}
\put(20,10){\red4\line(0,1){30}}
\put(20,10){\red2\line(1,0){60}}
\put(20,40){\red7\line(1,0){60}}
\put(20,25){\red5\line(1,0){15}}
\ifnum4=\redstatus
\put(20,10){\red4\line(0,1){30}}%
\fi
\put(20,10){\red3\line(-1,-1){5}}
\put(80,10){\red1\line(1,-1){5}}
\put(20,40){\red6\line(-1,1){5}}
\put(80,40){\red8\line(1,1){5}}
\put(15,5) {\red3\circle*{1.5}}
\put(15,45){\red6\circle*{1.5}}
\put(85,5) {\red1\circle*{1.5}}
\put(85,45){\red8\circle*{1.5}}
\put(37,15){\Huge{\red9a}{\red{10}r}{\red{11}t}{\red{12}{h}}}
\end{picture}%
\newpage
}
\redflash1
\redflash2
\redflash3
\redflash4
\redflash5
\redflash6
\redflash7
\redflash8
\redflash9
\redflash{10}
\redflash{11}
\redflash{12}
\end{document}
Command line:
pdflatex test
pdfcrop test.pdf test-crop.pdf
gs -sDEVICE=png256 -q -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dUseFastColor=true -r288x288 -sOutputFile=test%d.png -ftest-crop.pdf
picture mode to the rescue (to save you from tikz, perhaps:-)
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{picture}(100,60)
\linethickness{1.5pt}
\put(20,10){\line(0,1){30}}
\put(20,10){\line(1,0){60}}
\put(20,40){\line(1,0){60}}
\put(20,25){\line(1,0){15}}
\put(20,10){\line(-1,-1){10}}
\put(80,10){\line(1,-1){10}}
\put(20,40){\line(-1,1){10}}
\put(80,40){\line(1,1){10}}
\put(35,15){\Huge arth}
\end{picture}
\end{document}
pict2e
for better lines.
– Heiko Oberdiek
Jun 23 '14 at 9:09
You mean like what \resizebox
from graphicx
does?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\resizebox{5cm}{1cm}{E}
\end{document}
If this is not what you want, then I probably don't understand what "asymmetric" means.
However, I don't think this is what you really want since the result is very ugly. You better stick to some drawing tools and design a new shape of the letter E
.
TiKz
for this... – Mario S. E. Jun 23 '14 at 8:37