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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Kerning messed up for Minion Pro in ConTeXt	2010.06.09
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:32:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C10A310.7070601@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimDHnC9buwbPzOuieqHzAUol-WDKtiHcT-rk4iz@mail.gmail.com>

On 9-6-2010 10:59, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 18:36, Michael Murphy wrote:
>>
>> it looks like the kerning has gone weird for Minion Pro in the latest
>> ConTeXt (this is the only font I could find with the problem, all others
>> looked fine). I've attached a PDF to show the effect.
>
> Just a blind guess. Some Adobe fonts use "kerning groups" (a set of
> characters with equal kerning on left/right), while most fonts, in
> particular all the Polish fonts/LM use just "normal kerning" (kerning
> defined for each pair of characters). I suspect that only kerning of
> "group of characters" might be broken.

test code needed

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-10  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09 16:36 Michael Murphy
2010-06-09 20:59 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-06-10  8:32   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-06-10 11:57     ` Bernhard Rosensteiner
2010-06-10 13:26       ` Hans Hagen

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