[XeTeX] Change font metric?

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Nov 9 05:18:40 CET 2009


On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 10:16:04PM -0000, John Was wrote:
> (As 
> I've said in some other threads, one would dearly like a custom-kern 
> option that could be invoked when calling a font - that would allow users 
> to draw up a ker table containing their own manual adjustments of 
> unacceptably spaced pairs without delving into the font itself.)

Again, LuaTeX can actually do this, you can have a font feature file
(.fea) that, among other things, can define custom kerning table.

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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