[texhax] kerning problem when using MinionPro

[Axel E. Retif]

On  7 May, 2007, at 10:05, Yuri Robbers wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am typesetting a collection of short stories with the Adobe  
> Minion Pro fonts I've bought with this purpose in mind. I'm using  
> the MinionPro package from CTAN , and have set up the font files  
> and all the necessary auxiliary files exactly as described in the  
> documentation with that wonderful package.
>
> Now everything works fine, except for one niggly-naggly little  
> problem. Sometimes an apostrophe is used, such as in "She'd" or  
> "Don't". Of course this literary practice is frowned upon in formal  
> documents, but in fiction it is often unavoidable, as it is in many  
> instances in this collection. The problem I encounter is that the  
> kerning of that apostrophe is wrong when using MinionPro. It looks  
> like pdfLaTeX has typeset - for example - "shed" and squeezed in an  
> apostrophe as an afterthought, rather than typesetting "she'd", as  
> it should do.
>
> Now I can of course experiment a bit with manual kerning, and come  
> up with the right numbers to go with the \kern commands before and  
> after the apostrophe, but is there a way to fix things  
> documentwide, preferably in my preamble?

This was a topic on the MinionPro project mailing list:

https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/minionpro-devel/2006-January/ 
thread.html

You might want to subscribe to the list:

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Now the bad news ---I'm still using the same version you do (the one  
on CTAN), not the 2.1rc3 on BerliOS, but I don't think there is much  
the developers can do ---I tried in InDesign and the result was no  
much better using the metrics kerning option; optical kerning does a  
better job though.

I advise you to post your problem to the MinionPro list.

Best,

Axel