[luatex] Italic correction for normal text with LuaLaTex
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun Mar 11 21:47:06 CET 2012
On 2012-03-11 at 20:54:32 +0100, Bernhard Tempel wrote:
> Am 11.03.2012 18:48, schrieb Khaled Hosny:
> > The concept of italic correction does not exist in OpenType fonts (it
> > is a character propriety in TFM files, with no correspondence in
> > OpenType), so it will only work with TFM fonts.
>
> And only with those TFM fonts which have information on italic correction
> values for each glyph, so Source2e statement on automatic italic correction
> seems too general...
>
> > "luaotfload" has an `itlc` option that would try to guess an
> > italic correction for glyphs when loading the fonts. I've no
> > idea how reliable is it.
> >
> > Try \setmainfont[RawFeature={+itlc}]{Latin Modern Roman}, it
> > seems to make a noticeable improvement.
>
> Thanks a lot for this. It really makes an improvement. In some
> cases the guessed glue is to big, but better results would be very
> difficult to reach when using heuristics. To calculate the extreme
> "\emph{f}!" combination works fine; with the less extreme
> combination "\emph{f}:" the kerning could be more tight, but I can
> see that the guessed value must be the the same as for "\emph{f}!".
But if you try
\parindent0pt
\emph{f}! \par
\emph{f}: \par
\emph{f}; \par
\emph{f}. \par
you'll see that the period is treated differently. Is this a result
of the heuristics or does it come from somewhere else?
Regards,
Reinhard
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