Tadziu Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The neat thing about groff's way of having the (editable) > metrics file separate from the actual font file (as opposed > to, say, a system where the metrics are read directly from a > not-so-easily-editable truetype or opentype font file), is that > it is extremely easy to adjust things like the subscript kern > for individual letters or to add new kerning pairs.
With this I disagree (not with the feasibility, but with it being good software design). It means that in order to reproduce a document, you have to distribute the metrics as well. It also means that automatic kerning is restricted to the glyphs of a single font. These were the main reasons why I introduced the ".kernpair" request in Heirloom troff. Gunnar
