On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Andre Poenitz writes: > > 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. > > > 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. > > I don't see how you arrive at that. If I assume perhaps twenty or so > ranges of 256 chars. for a very large font family (including greek > letters, punctuation and more -- and I assume that this would cover CM, > Knuth's font and the one I am using) I come up with roughly 5K > characters. And it seems to me that the kerning pairs would be 5K to > the power of 2 (not 2 to the power of 5K) -- though I admit that as a > non-mathematician I only arrived at this by putting five letters on a > page and adding up the possible pairs (AA, AB, AC, AD, AE, BA, BB, > etc.); this gave me 25, not 32.
So even this gives you 25 million combinations. I doubt anybody sits down and writes down special kerning rules for all of them. Andre'
