Re: Kerning and hyphenation

2007-01-15 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 13.01.2007 06:32:15 Manuel Mall wrote: While looking into the support for the Soft Hyphen the area of hyphenation combined with kerning is causing me trouble. Aside 1: our fonts page claims we don't support kerning but I believe we do. Yes, we do. Aside 2: Our tests are based on

Re: Kerning for CID fonts, use unicode indexes in kerning?

2006-10-13 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Thanks for the changes. I understand the necessity now. I've done some tests and after your latest fix, everything seems to be working fine. Let's hope our users won't be too mad at us for changing the format. I have some time in trains this and next week. Maybe I'll try to figure out if it's a

Re: Kerning for CID fonts, use unicode indexes in kerning?

2006-10-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 10/13/06, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Maybe I'll try to figure out if it's a small change to bypass the metrics file entirely. :-) Shouldn't be hard at all, but right now I have to create a test document to demonstrate the new font features for my own project, so I won't be

Re: Kerning for CID fonts, use unicode indexes in kerning?

2006-10-13 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Right, it isn't hard. Almost works after a train ride to Zurich and back. :-) On 13.10.2006 11:33:09 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On 10/13/06, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Maybe I'll try to figure out if it's a small change to bypass the metrics file entirely. :-) Shouldn't

Re: Kerning for CID fonts, use unicode indexes in kerning?

2006-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 10/11/06, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I wonder how much should be invested in versioning of those files Ok, so I have added a simplistic versioning system for these metrics XML files, an exception is thrown when attempting to read incompatible metrics files

Re: Kerning for CID fonts, use unicode indexes in kerning?

2006-10-11 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I wonder where this got broken. I believe this used to work. If this change has an effect on the XML files generated, then we should be careful because people might not recreate their metric files and subsequently run into problems. On 11.10.2006 13:15:54 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi FOPpers,

Re: Kerning for CID fonts, use unicode indexes in kerning?

2006-10-11 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 10/11/06, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...If this change has an effect on the XML files generated, then we should be careful because people might not recreate their metric files and subsequently run into problems... How about adding a version number to the XML metrics files?

Re: Kerning for CID fonts, use unicode indexes in kerning?

2006-10-11 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Sure. However, as we discussed in Amsterdam, the goal should be that we don't rely on those XML files much longer, so I wonder how much should be invested in versioning of those files. But if you don't see a way around it... I still don't understand why exactly this change is necessary. On

Letter space [was Re: Kerning]

2005-12-11 Thread Finn Bock
[Luca] ... A little doubt concerning letter spaces: at the moment, a letter space is assigned to the preceding character. Is this correct? I don't remember any section in the specs stating about the ownership of letter spaces ... I think that everything is simpler, from the point of view of

Re: Kerning

2005-12-09 Thread Luca Furini
Starting from your final summary: Manuel Mall wrote: IMO FOP should limit itself to: a) Use kerning only for consecutive characters within the same fo Ok, but more on this later in this message ... b) Limit itself to the kerning information in the font Ok c) Only apply kerning if the

RE: Kerning

2005-12-09 Thread Shannon Mann
@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Kerning Starting from your final summary: Manuel Mall wrote: IMO FOP should limit itself to: a) Use kerning only for consecutive characters within the same fo Ok, but more on this later in this message ... b) Limit itself to the kerning information