kerning in slanted/unslanted founts

[Alan Jeffrey]

Chris Rowley wrote:

> But, as Lars said more quantitatively, kern values do not depend only
> on what happens horizontally.  The visual nearness of two shapes
> depends on "non-horizontal relationships" between black pixels, and
> these are not preserved by skew transformations.

OK, point taken.  But, as Lars also pointed out, there's not much
fontinst can do here, since it only `knows' about bounding boxes. 
Trying to compute visual distances between glyphs is a bit beyond both
me and the software...

Alan.
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