Re: Kerning and Minion Pro

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Andreas Harder wrote:
>  >> I've a curious problem: With Palatino or Latin Modern kerning seems to
>  >> work as intended, but what's the matter with Minion (example below)?
> 
>  > This appears to be caused by the fact that in MinionPro most
>  > (not all, but most) of the kerning is specified via kern classes.
> 
> Than you for explanation! But, is it possible to activate kerning for 
> MinionPro?
> And what about the following example?
> 
> \startbuffer[KernTest]
>   \startlines
>     Tänze,
>     Tanze,
>     Väter,
>     Vater,
>   \stoplines
> \stopbuffer
> 
> The kerned „Väter“ can't be right (with MinionPro).

Here the blue (= base mode) actually looks correct, but that just means 
that mkiv needs a patch: the base kerns are also generated by the mkiv
font loader, after all. It probably got confused by the kerning classes.

I expect that it actually did work earlier (pre 0.31), and that what you
see now is just a regression. But it is better for me to wait for Hans'
comment than to dive into the code  and maybe spend hours on a problem
that would take him 10 seconds.

Best wishes,
Taco


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