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Re: bug in fontinst 1.801: duplicated kernings (was: ae fonts Q)
- To: Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>
- Subject: Re: bug in fontinst 1.801: duplicated kernings (was: ae fonts Q)
- From: Alan Jeffrey <ajeffrey@cs.depaul.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:29:35 -0500
- Cc: fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- Organization: DePaul University
- Sender: ajeffrey@cs.depaul.edu
Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> BTW: what do you mean here? Why/how are these kern tables
> compressable?
If a font has the same kern pairs for M and N (which, let's face it is
pretty likely) then fontinst will just generate the duplicate ligtable
for both, rather than combine them into one ligtable. This makes a big
difference for some commercial type 1 fonts, which seem to have kern
entries for just about every pair of characters. It's especially
noticable in small caps fonts.
Alan.