Re: kerning, letterspacing ...
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:57:49AM +0100, Eckhard Hoeffner wrote: The kerning informations are stored in the tfm-files. TeX or LaTeX does not know anything about the outlines of a font, but only the size of a font and the letterspacing (kerning). I do not know how to change the kerning as the tfm-files are binary. You must change the source. The outlines are *only* needed for viewing (xdvi) and printing (dvips). tftopl and pltotf Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Debian GNU/Linux Developer Queen Mary, Univ. of London see http://people.debian.org/~jdg/ http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~jdg/ or http://www.debian.org/ Visit http://www.thehungersite.com/ to help feed the hungry Also: http://www.helpthehungry.org/
Re: kerning, letterspacing ...
* andrej hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17 12 01 01:55]: Hello, i was just scanning through the book The Elements of Typographic style by Robert Bringhurst and came along kerning and letterspacing. I'm wondering how LaTeX manages kerning and letterspacing, e.g. in strings of capitals. Is there a way of influencing on that? The kerning informations are stored in the tfm-files. TeX or LaTeX does not know anything about the outlines of a font, but only the size of a font and the letterspacing (kerning). I do not know how to change the kerning as the tfm-files are binary. You must change the source. The outlines are *only* needed for viewing (xdvi) and printing (dvips). If you are using Type1 fonts, the kerning can be found in the afm-files. These files are plain ascii and can be modified. To use the new kerning instructions with latex, you have to produce new tfm-files = texdoc fontinst). -- --//--\\-- Eckhard Hoeffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tal 44 D-80331 München
