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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Dear Adam</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Thanks for that - it's a very neat
solution. I was trying to keep away from working on the font itself since
so many OTF fonts are under development and it would be necessary to keep track
of what one had done with version A when installing an updated version B - hence
the desire to specify kerning pairs in a user-generated list which
could easily be called up and tinkered with as a separate entity. But for
the moment I'm happy with any solution that will avoid the squashed appearance
of e.g. L'espace or etc.'.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Best</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=list.adam@twardoch.com href="mailto:list.adam@twardoch.com">Adam
Twardoch</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
platforms</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 18, 2008 2:06
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Kerning
support</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Changing one or two kerning pair values in your own local
copies of a font is trivial using <BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.font.org/software/ttx/">http://www.font.org/software/ttx/</A><BR>(just
convert the font to XML, change the values using a text editor and convert the
font back to OTF). The license agreement for Adobe fonts allows that.
<BR><BR>A.<BR><BR><BR>Will Robertson wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:D03C1243-216E-4953-92D7-28E23A856F10@gmail.com
type="cite">On 17/04/2008, at 6:43 PM, John Was wrote: <BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I think intercharacter tokens could be problematic
<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Yeah; as Jonathan pointed out to me when this feature
was first introduced, interchar tokens are inserted regardless of the font;
it would be possible to detect the font and conditionally insert the
kerning, but that would mess up other uses for the interchar feature
(namely, detecting when a certain script changes). <BR><BR>So while you
could do it for an ad hoc purpose, it's really not the way to go :)
<BR><BR>Will<BR><PRE wrap=""><HR width="90%" SIZE=4>
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