On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of > letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This is > using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually > balanced in "non-Western" I am having to add -0.1em kerning between it > and the W. > > I also see this problem in "mid-1920s", for example. > > Even my lowly mail program (Kontakt/KMail) does a better job with this. > Am I missing some step or have I taken a wrong turn somewhere?
I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all circumstances. Using a manual kern do not look overly ugly to me. Andre'
