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

[Pablo Rodríguez]

William Adams wrote:
> 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.

Is there no way to switch GPOS kerning for a concrete font (or for all
fonts in a document) using fontspec or XeTeX?

Thanks,


Pablo