Am Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:50:04 +0100 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: >> Thanks to your help, I am making progress adjusting the kerning of >> OpenType fonts. There are still some problems, though ... >> 1. Curiously, adjusting the kerning does not work for some letter >> pairs and I cannot see a pattern here. Adjusting "ei", for example, >> works just fine but "ev" does not. I got the same results with two >> different fonts (TeX Gyre Bonum and Linux Libertine), so I think it >> is not a font issue but a Lua(La)TeX one. >> > > I think it is the font. I don't know much about open type fonts and > features etc, but a look at the kerning information of "e" in > fontforge seems to indicate that a kern for "ev" and "ew" already > exists, and I think this kern "wins".
Okay, I see what you mean (I just checked in FontForge too). I cannot comment on the technical aspect of this issue but from a "philosophical" standpoint it is somewhat bizarre: What good is a local or user specific feature file that cannot override the standard settings of a font? Is this how OTF features are supposed to (not) work? (I know this is probably not the right place to ask this kind of question.) Thanks, -Till
