[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex <xetex at tug.org>

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 6, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 06.02.2011 um 14:02 schrieb Alessandro Ceschini:
> 
>> -2ex is OK, it looks remarkably like the output FontForge proposes.
>> 
> You probably mean -0.2ex. 2ex is twice the width of an x. This would make the two characters change positions and sequence...
> 

Howdy,

Hmmm... I thought 1ex was the height of an `x', not it's width, which makes measuring a width using ex's is kind of strange. I'd expect to measure in em's.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)