[XeTeX] OpenType Fonts and Kerning: need mindtuning
Kenneth Reid Beesley
krbeesley at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 19:19:24 CET 2009
I'm new to kerning and need some mindtuning:
Using FontForge, I've created a new OpenType font for the Deseret
Alphabet, and have tried to define
kerning for various problematic glyph pairs. I then use the OpenType
font in Xe(La)TeX.
I'm working on Mac OS X 10.5.5 with XeTeX 3.141592-0.996 (Web2C
7.5.6), kpathsea version 3.5.6
From FontForge, I generate the OpenType font (presumably with kerning
information), install it, and then restart.
I use the new font successfully in a Xe(La)TeX test file, but some of
the problematic pairs are not rendered as
closely as I'd like (they are not rendered with the kerning that I
tried to indicate).
Questions:
1. Is there some limit in XeTeX on how much two glyphs can be
squeezed together using kerning?
2. Do I need to save the OpenType font in some special way? with some
special options? (For example,
FontForge allows you to save a font with "Old style 'kern'"--does
Xe(La)TeX need such old-style kerning
tables?)
Thanks in anticipation,
Ken
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Kenneth R. Beesley, D.Phil.
P.O. Box 540475
North Salt Lake, UT
84054 USA
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