[XeTeX] weird kerning with GFS Didot's italic face

[William Adams]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

> I used Word 2000 in Windows 2000. Probably it doesn't use GPOS  
> kerning.

Word's kerning support has always been wildly variable, on-again off  
again.

If memory serves, 2.0 didn't do kerning, 2.0a kerned Type 1 but not  
TrueType, 2.0b kerned TrueType but not Type 1 and 2.0c went back to  
not kerning.

Thankfully I've not had to use Word so as to be concerned about its  
kerning since.

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications



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