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Re: bug in fontinst 1.801: duplicated kernings (was: ae fonts Q)
- To: Alan Jeffrey <ajeffrey@cs.depaul.edu>
- Subject: Re: bug in fontinst 1.801: duplicated kernings (was: ae fonts Q)
- From: Thierry Bouche <Thierry.Bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:13:30 +0200 (MET DST)
- Cc: Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>, fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- In-Reply-To: <3611351F.418A337A@cs.depaul.edu>
Concernant « Re: bug in fontinst 1.801: duplicated kernings (was: ae fonts Q) », Alan Jeffrey écrit : «
» Vladimir Volovich wrote:
»
» > BTW: what do you mean here? Why/how are these kern tables
» > compressable?
»
» If a font has the same kern pairs for M and N (which, let's face it is
» pretty likely) then fontinst will just generate the duplicate ligtable
» for both, rather than combine them into one ligtable. This makes a big
» difference for some commercial type 1 fonts, which seem to have kern
» entries for just about every pair of characters.
which is typical of computer generated pairs (like URW's kernus).
» It's especially
» noticable in small caps fonts.
but here most of the pairs are created by fontinst itself, no ?