[pdftex] auto letter spacing

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Tue Dec 12 09:10:50 CET 2006


Hi Thanh,

>>However I am not sure the "more right" way to do this is that
>>each character c should have a kern of 5*width_of_c/1000 at
>>each side, ie the kern inserted around each character is
>>proportional to its width, instead of having a fixed global
>>value for all characters. This is more closed to the way font
>>expansion is done, but is different from what fontinst does
>>for letter-spacing.

I am much in favour of the equal width solution.


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