[Fontinst] Need help with Hoefler Text Type1

[Robin Schwab]

Thanks John and Lars for the help provided. Hoefler text is now working with
switchable hanging and lining figures, ligatures and swashes.

However I'm not shure wether it is a good idea to use the expert superscript
figures for endnotes. What do you think?

Zitat von Lars Hellström <Lars.Hellstrom at residenset.net>:

> > Second thing is that I get twice as much overfull boxes with hoefler
> > text as with latin modern. It looks like the elasticity of the spaces 
> > is
> > wrong.
> 
> That's easy enough to check: what does the FONTDIMEN section in the 
> generated VPL files say? You might also want to compare with the number 
> of overfull boxes for Times; as I recall it, Computer Modern and 
> derivatives have wider spaces than postscript fonts tend to have.

This is now the biggest problem. See http://www.robinschwab.ch/60.pdf for a
sample page. I get an average of 0.77 box errors per page in latin modern, 0.80
with times but 1.55 with Hoefler text. What's the reason?

Using microtype helps a lot but I still get ~150 box errors. I guess if I have
Hoefler text at the level of latin modern and then use microtype I will have
close to zero hbox errors.

This is my fontimen section:
(FONTDIMEN
   (PARAMETER D 1 R 0.000)
   (PARAMETER D 2 R 0.215)
   (PARAMETER D 3 R 0.129)
   (PARAMETER D 4 R 0.052)
   (PARAMETER D 5 R 0.425)
   (PARAMETER D 6 R 1.000)
   (PARAMETER D 7 R 0.052)
   (PARAMETER D 8 R 0.688)
   (PARAMETER D 9 R 0.721)
   (PARAMETER D 10 R 0.887)
   (PARAMETER D 11 R 0.265)
   (PARAMETER D 12 R 0.925)
   (PARAMETER D 13 R 0.318)
   (PARAMETER D 14 R 0.526)
   (PARAMETER D 16 R 1.200)
   )

> Another reason could be that hyphenation is turned off for this font 
> (\hyphenchar set to -1), but I can't see why that would happen.

ACK, it's on.

Another thing: John talked about including kernings. How do I see which kernings
are missing? I can't check every letter combination nor do I have the experience
to tell which amount of kerning is good.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks, Robin