[luatex] Italic correction for normal text with LuaLaTex

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2012-03-11 at 20:54:32 +0100, Bernhard Tempel wrote:

 > Am 11.03.2012 18:48, schrieb Khaled Hosny:
 > >  The concept of italic correction does not exist in OpenType fonts (it
 > >  is a character propriety in TFM files, with no correspondence in
 > >  OpenType), so it will only work with TFM fonts.
 > 
 > And only with those TFM fonts which have information on italic correction 
 > values for each glyph, so Source2e statement on automatic italic correction 
 > seems too general...
 > 
 > >  "luaotfload" has an `itlc` option that would try to guess an
 > >  italic correction for glyphs when loading the fonts. I've no
 > >  idea how reliable is it.
 > >
 > >  Try \setmainfont[RawFeature={+itlc}]{Latin Modern Roman}, it
 > >  seems to make a noticeable improvement.
 > 
 > Thanks a lot for this. It really makes an improvement. In some
 > cases the guessed glue is to big, but better results would be very
 > difficult to reach when using heuristics. To calculate the extreme
 > "\emph{f}!" combination works fine; with the less extreme
 > combination "\emph{f}:" the kerning could be more tight, but I can
 > see that the guessed value must be the the same as for "\emph{f}!".

But if you try

  \parindent0pt
  \emph{f}! \par 
  \emph{f}: \par 
  \emph{f}; \par 
  \emph{f}. \par  

you'll see that the period is treated differently.  Is this a result
of the heuristics or does it come from somewhere else?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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