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Re: bug in fontinst 1.801: duplicated kernings (was: ae fonts Q)
- To: vvv@vvv.vsu.ru
- Subject: Re: bug in fontinst 1.801: duplicated kernings (was: ae fonts Q)
- From: Lars Engebretsen <enge@nada.kth.se>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:24:06 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- In-Reply-To: <m33e9c7310.fsf@vvv.vsu.ru>
- Reply-To: enge@nada.kth.se
On 28 Sep, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> "LE" == Lars Engebretsen writes:
>
> >> Could you please answer why you commented out kerning stuff for ff
> >> ligatures (and some more) in the aelatin.mtx?
> >>
> >> %\setleftkerning{ffi}{f}{1000} %\setleftkerning{ffl}{f}{1000}
> >> %\setleftrightkerning{ff}{f}{1000} %\setleftkerning{fi}{f}{1000}
> >> %\setleftkerning{fl}{f}{1000}
> >>
> >> we're preparing a similar package for cyrillic encodings, so this
> >> is important to me.
>
> LE> I can't remember why, and when I removed the % signs, the fonts
> LE> still seem to be generated OK, so I would call the lack of
> LE> kerning a bug.
>
> Hmm... i've just checked, and found that when those lines are
> uncommented, fontinst generated duplicated kernings, e.g.:
When I think more about this, I guess that this is because there
already is kerning information for the ff-ligature in the original tfm
file. Therefore, it is not nescessary to use the \set*kerning stuff for
those ligature.
Or maybe I'm wrong?
/Lars
--
Lars Engebretsen, M.Sc., <enge@nada.kth.se>