Re: Got those old bad kerning blues

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2021-05-08T22:05:32-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 5/8/21, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is the kerning information for the Times family incorrect?
> 
> Not so much incorrect as nonexistent, a problem that isn't specific to
> the Times family.  It's an effect of groff's inability to specify kern
> pairs between characters of different fonts (either in font files or
> within a document).  This limitation seems to be undocumented, which
> savannah bug #44715 (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44715) seeks to
> remedy.

Aha.  Thanks, Dave.  I knew about that bug report and the problem I was
seeing, but somehow my brain failed to make the link between them.

Okay.  That Savannah ticket now itches me more.

Regards,
Branden

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