[XeTeX] weird kerning with GFS Didot's italic face

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 6 Jul 2006, at 8:23 pm, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>> Is there no way to switch GPOS kerning for a concrete font (or for all
>> fonts in a document) using fontspec or XeTeX?
> 
> It's enabled by default (if present in the font); you can disable it  
> by specifying the "-kern" tag in the \font declaration, thus:
> 
> 	\font\nokerndidot = "GFS Didot:-kern" at 12pt
> 
> Fontspec doesn't seem to have a predefined option for this (how about  
> it, Will?!), but you can declare one; I think the form would be  
> something like this (untested):
> 
> 	\newfontfeature{NoKerning}{-kern}
> 	\setromanfont[NoKerning]{GFS Didot}

Thanks, Jonathan, it worked fine, if GPOS kerning is not applied.

BTW, is there another kerning in OpenType fonts other than GPOS?

Thanks for your help,


Pablo