[lucida] kerning table

Bruno Bischofberger bischofberger at fastmail.com
Tue Mar 27 09:13:49 CEST 2018


Hi John

I have corrected the mistake and adjusted the kerning pair "01" a little for symmetry reasons. Thank you for checking. 

Bests, Bruno



On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:12:09PM +0000, John H Lienhard wrote:
> Hi Bruno —
> 
> Thank you for sharing this file.  I have been experimenting with these kern tables, with good overall results.
> 
> I wanted to mention one thing that I noticed in the number kerning. The last line has [“O”], but I think you may have wanted [“0”].  Changing this may affect some of the symmetry for strings like “010” and “070”, however.
> 
> 	Cheers
> 	John Lienhard
> 
> 
> > On Mar 26, 2018, at 3:02 PM, Bruno Bischofberger <bischofberger at fastmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Reinhard
> > 
> > Thank you for the licenses. I added a LPPL licence to all of my scripts.
> > 
> > Bests, Bruno
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 09:23:01PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >> On 2018-03-25 at 10:26:31 +0200, Bruno Bischofberger wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Dear list
> >>> 
> >>> I just wanted to share some work I did last year on a
> >>> lualatex-based kerning list for the lucida font. It is not at all
> >>> complete or perfect but I get pretty decent results with it.
> >>> 
> >>> I am aware that this can not be officially distributed (see [1]). I
> >>> just thought it could be a good starting point for others who would
> >>> like to have some sort of basic kerning for their lucida fonts.
> >>> 
> >>> You can find the file here: 
> >>> https://github.com/whilealive/LaTexStyles/blob/master/lucidaBrightOT.sty
> >>> 
> >>> Bests, Bruno
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> [1] http://tug.org/pipermail/lucida/2010-November/000358.html
> >> 
> >> Hi Bruno,
> >> your package doesn't alter the fonts, hence I think it can be
> >> distributed.  See what the microtype package already does. 
> >> 
> >> It's certainly a good idea to add license statements to all your
> >> scripts.  Standard licenses (LPPL, GPL,...) are preferred.  If you
> >> intend to upload anything to CTAN you are asked for a license anyway.
> >> 
> >> I've collected a few license statements for use with Emacs:
> >> 
> >>  http://ms25.ddns.net/licenses.tar.xz
> >> 
> >> The list is not complete.  LPPL needs manual editing.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >>  Reinhard
> >> 
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