7 Sep 2011 18:20
Corrections for Greek
Hallo, I have folowing suggestions for the Greek letters. 1) Kerning pairs for combinations Greek accent + capital Greek letter I suggest adding kerning pairs for combinations Greek accent + capital Greek letter. Now, accent + letter looks not very good--the accent is too far from the letter. I generated the kerning pairs from the sfd files with the goal that the accent should have exactly the same position to the letter as it has in the precomposed letter. I'm sending the kerning pairs in two formats: *.txt and *.afm. The *.txt file is plain text file with 3 columns: accent, letter and kerning. It has the values that should go to the sfd file. The *.afm file uses the format of the PostScript fonts and the kerning values are scaled down by factor 1000/2048. Importing the kerning pairs from the *.afm files is easy, but there are some rounding errors (nevetheless acceptable). I learned the sfd format just as much to generate these kerns and it would take me quite some time to change directly the sfd files. This is a safe feature to implement, it doesn't break anything. It would be useful for the typesetting system TeX and I think that it would be best to implement it in the fonts (more people could benefit from it). There are currently just few fonts that implement kerning between(Continue reading)
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