Re: [OT] Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-02-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: 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

Re: [OT] Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
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 to

Re: [OT] Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kevin" == Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> Anyway, one can assume (I would have thought) that Knuth would Kevin> have worked in an optimal manner and therefore paid particular Kevin> attention to the most common possible combinations (such as the Kevin> basic lower- and upp

[OT] Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-25 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
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 -- apolog