Stephan Witt wrote: > The metrics cache computes the width of every single character - > inclusive cacheing of it (to get better performance). But the > drawing is done with complete text strings and if a font supports > kerning e.g. it's absolutely correct to respect it on drawing. > > LyX cursor positioning simply operates in a parallel universe... > ... and uses the metrics cache numbers. > > See ticket http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6920
its clearly not just mac os thing. this starts to be currently most annoying bug we have and the proper solution probably means rewrite the painting routines. http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7235 pavel
