[pdftex] Han The Thanh's thesis on microtypography

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:59 PM 2/2/2002 +0800, Guy Worthington wrote:

>%--------------------------------------------------
>\noindent Collecting font metrics for \fontname\font
>
>\setbox0=\hbox{-}
>character hyphen (-) has width \the\wd0
>
>\dimen0=1em
>dimension em has width \the\dimen0
>
>\bigskip
>
>\font\palatinofont = pplr at 10pt
>\palatinofont
>
>\noindent Collecting font metrics for \fontname\font
>
>\setbox0=\hbox{-}
>character hyphen (-) has width \the\wd0
>
>\dimen0=1em
>dimension em has width \the\dimen0
>
>\bye
>%--------------------------------------------------
>
>The result (after filtering through GSview's text extract tool) is
>shown below:
>
>Collecting font metrics for cmr10
>character hyphen (­) has width 3.33333pt
>dimension em has width 10.00002pt
>Collecting font metrics for pplr
>character hyphen (­) has width 3.33pt
>dimension em has width 10.0pt
>
>Would this be the first group? the group of invariant metrics.

so, these are about the same for both

>After gathering all the invariant metrics, I guess I then search for
>metrics, that when compared, have a small variation,  and so on, until
>I've graded the two fonts.  Apart from the 40 characters that Thanh
>defines, are there any other principal metrics, that I should be
>searching for?

to start with, *don't* set the values for a-z A-Z, just play with the 
punctuation

>I'll play with this for a while, and see if I can get results similar
>to your own examples.

Ok

Hans
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