[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

Alessandro Ceschini alessandroceschini.it at gmail.com
Sat Feb 5 23:15:32 CET 2011


Sorry, I'd rather say there is too little space on top, not too much,
the two characters are practically stuck on top, while there should
be--FontForge and Pango show it--some additional space. Are you sure our
outputs are the same?

Le samedi 05 février 2011 à 23:07 +0100, Adam Twardoch (List) a écrit :

> On 11-02-05 22:41, Alessandro Ceschini wrote:
> > Yeah, as I told you I'd taken a look in FontForge and it came out font
> > designers had anticipated such combination in the kerning pairs table.
> > In effect it works in PangoView but I can't figure out how to direct the
> > output toward a pdf, so I can't show you the right kerning, anyhow there
> > should be more space, that's obvious.
> > There should be some bug in XeTeX, I guess it doesn't look for kerning
> > pairs that involve alternate glyphs.
> Well, no, it certainly *does* look into for kerning pairs -- your and my
> tests obviously indicate that there is *lots* of kerning between the two
> glyphs in question, in fact, *too* much.
> 
> So XeTeX does kern, it just does something wrong in the process, perhaps
> adding some additional kerning value on top.
> 
> A.
> 
> 


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