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
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
> "Kevin" == Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
>> What font are you using currently? EC?
Kevin> The Computer Modern family ("ae" variant).
Did you try EC or lmodern? Does it make a difference?
JMarc
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
> What font are you using currently? EC?
The Computer Modern family ("ae" variant).
-Kevin
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Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> "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
Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
> And it seems to me that the kerning pairs would be 5K to
> the power of 2 (not 2 to the power of 5K)
(Well, I see now that that is not what you were saying, either!)
-K
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Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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
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 to
Herbert Voss writes:
> Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
[...]
> > This kerns better it seems, but it is an en-dash, not a hyphen. In
> > the humanities and social sciences, at least, hyphens are used for
> > compound word (with a few exceptions). :-(
>
> The en dash (–) is used to indicate a range of just ab
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. ;-) There can't be too
many more than about 65K possible combinations I would think --
apologies in advance if my math is wrong.
> Using a manua
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Hi,
(thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW)
Herbert Voss writes:
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
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-Weste
Hi,
(thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW)
Herbert Voss writes:
> 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 hyphe
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
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
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