[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

[Adam Twardoch (List)]

On 11-02-05 22:41, Alessandro Ceschini wrote:
> Yeah, as I told you I'd taken a look in FontForge and it came out font
> designers had anticipated such combination in the kerning pairs table.
> In effect it works in PangoView but I can't figure out how to direct the
> output toward a pdf, so I can't show you the right kerning, anyhow there
> should be more space, that's obvious.
> There should be some bug in XeTeX, I guess it doesn't look for kerning
> pairs that involve alternate glyphs.
Well, no, it certainly *does* look into for kerning pairs -- your and my
tests obviously indicate that there is *lots* of kerning between the two
glyphs in question, in fact, *too* much.

So XeTeX does kern, it just does something wrong in the process, perhaps
adding some additional kerning value on top.

A.