Re: track kerning

["Berthold K.P. Horn" <bkph@ai.mit.edu>]

Hi:

This must a very old, or a very unusual font.
These days most fonts give kerning pairs instead.
"Track kerning" is a poor approximation that
allows one to tune the space some text takes,
crudely.

Regards, Berthold.

At 19:26 2000-06-06 +0200, Walter Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> apologizing that my question is a bit off-topic -- it is not 
> special for TeX.
>
> I found the following piece of information in an afm file:
>
> StartTrackKern 3
> TrackKern -1 6 0.10 144 -2.09
> TrackKern -2 6 0.05 144 -4.02
> TrackKern -3 6 0.00 144 -5.96
>
> I know that this means, that letterspacing should vary with
> font size.  However, what does this mean _quantitatively_?
> How do I have to read this information?
>
> TIA
>
> Walter

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