[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

Adam Twardoch (List) list.adam at twardoch.com
Sat Feb 5 23:17:47 CET 2011


On 11-02-05 23:15, Alessandro Ceschini wrote:
> 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?
Yes. Kerning typically works in the "negative" direction. Without
kerning, the distance between those two glyphs would be much larger.
Kerning reduces the distance, i.e. moves the Serbian "b" to the LEFT,
but in XeTeX, it moves too much to the left.

A.


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