On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> Andre Poenitz writes:
> > I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
> > circumstances. 
> 
> That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-)

Now, if they'd paid me like a NASA engineer ...

> There can't be too many more than about 65K possible combinations I
> would think -- apologies in advance if my math is wrong.

Like UCS4 squared? Makes 2^64 at max. Ok. A few Klingon/Prehistoric
Chinese combination could probably disregarded.

> > Using a manual kern do not look overly ugly to me.
> 
> It looks fine, but I have two volumes of 400 pages each and have no 
> tremendous desire to search (or even S/R) through them for bad 
> combinations. 
> 
> I'll concentrate my efforts on the first page of each chapter.  ;-)

Good choice ;-)

Andre'

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