On 11-07-12 02:07, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > Personally I would expect Times New Roman 3.x fonts to have non-zero > advances ... but would expect Times New Roman 5.x fonts to have zero > advances. I believe that the Microsoft Typography team is very concerned with metric backwards compatibility of their core fonts. Since Arial and Times New Roman have been in development for a very long time, they carry a lot of backwards-baggage, which is unlikely to be "fixed" because that might potentially cause reflow in some documents that use those fonts when the user upgrades to a new OS. And no reflow is one of Microsoft's priorities, at least in the Office team.
For the same reason kerning was never added to Verdana Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, because those fonts errornously shipped without kerning with Internet Explorer 4. So only Verdana Regular has kerning, and it's very likely to stay that way. Best, Adam -- May success attend your efforts, -- Adam Twardoch (Remove "list." from e-mail address to contact me directly.) _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
