Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I don't see how you arrive at that. If I assume perhaps twenty or so
ranges of 256 chars. for a very large font family (including greek
letters, punctuation and more -- and I assume that this would cover
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I don't see how you arrive at that. If I assume perhaps twenty or so
ranges of 256 chars. for a very large font family (including greek
letters, punctuation and more -- and I assume that this would cover
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I don't see how you arrive at that. If I assume perhaps twenty or so
ranges of 256 chars. for a very large font family (including greek
letters, punctuation and more -- and I assume that this would cover
Kevin == Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kevin Anyway, one can assume (I would have thought) that Knuth would
Kevin have worked in an optimal manner and therefore paid particular
Kevin attention to the most common possible combinations (such as the
Kevin basic lower- and uppercase
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
What font are you using currently? EC?
The Computer Modern family (ae variant).
-Kevin
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Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations
Kevin == Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kevin Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
What font are you using currently? EC?
Kevin The Computer Modern family (ae variant).
Did you try EC or lmodern? Does it make a difference?
JMarc
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Andre Poenitz writes:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Andre Poenitz writes:
I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
circumstances.
There can't be too many more than
Kevin == Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kevin Anyway, one can assume (I would have thought) that Knuth would
Kevin have worked in an optimal manner and therefore paid particular
Kevin attention to the most common possible combinations (such as the
Kevin basic lower- and uppercase
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
What font are you using currently? EC?
The Computer Modern family (ae variant).
-Kevin
--
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations
Kevin == Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kevin Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
What font are you using currently? EC?
Kevin The Computer Modern family (ae variant).
Did you try EC or lmodern? Does it make a difference?
JMarc
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Andre Poenitz writes:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Andre Poenitz writes:
I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
circumstances.
There can't be too many more than
> "Kevin" == Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> Anyway, one can assume (I would have thought) that Knuth would
Kevin> have worked in an optimal manner and therefore paid particular
Kevin> attention to the most common possible combinations (such as the
Kevin> basic lower- and
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
> What font are you using currently? EC?
The Computer Modern family ("ae" variant).
-Kevin
--
Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations
> "Kevin" == Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
>> What font are you using currently? EC?
Kevin> The Computer Modern family ("ae" variant).
Did you try EC or lmodern? Does it make a difference?
JMarc
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> Andre Poenitz writes:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > Andre Poenitz writes:
> > > > I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
> > > > circumstances.
> > > There can't be
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Andre Poenitz writes:
I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
circumstances.
That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-)
Now, if they'd paid me like a NASA engineer ...
There can't be too many
Andre Poenitz writes:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Andre Poenitz writes:
I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
circumstances.
There can't be too many more than about 65K possible combinations I
would think -- apologies in
Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
And it seems to me that the kerning pairs would be 5K to
the power of 2 (not 2 to the power of 5K)
(Well, I see now that that is not what you were saying, either!)
-K
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Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Andre Poenitz writes:
I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
circumstances.
That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-)
Now, if they'd paid me like a NASA engineer ...
There can't be too many
Andre Poenitz writes:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Andre Poenitz writes:
I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
circumstances.
There can't be too many more than about 65K possible combinations I
would think -- apologies in
Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
And it seems to me that the kerning pairs would be 5K to
the power of 2 (not 2 to the power of 5K)
(Well, I see now that that is not what you were saying, either!)
-K
--
Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiros-Translations
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> Andre Poenitz writes:
> > I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
> > circumstances.
>
> That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-)
Now, if they'd paid me like a NASA engineer ...
> There can't be
Andre Poenitz writes:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Andre Poenitz writes:
> > > I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
> > > circumstances.
> > There can't be too many more than about 65K possible combinations I
> > would think --
Kevin Pfeiffer writes:
> And it seems to me that the kerning pairs would be 5K to
> the power of 2 (not 2 to the power of 5K)
(Well, I see now that that is not what you were saying, either!)
-K
--
Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of
letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This is
using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually
balanced in non-Western I am having to add -0.1em kerning between it
and
Hi,
(thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW)
Herbert Voss writes:
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning
of letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This
is using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of
letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This is
using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually
balanced in non-Western I am
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Hi,
(thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW)
Herbert Voss writes:
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning
of letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This
is using the standard CM font. To
Andre Poenitz writes:
I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
circumstances.
That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-) There can't be too
many more than about 65K possible combinations I would think --
apologies in advance if my math is wrong.
Using a manual
Herbert Voss writes:
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
[...]
This kerns better it seems, but it is an en-dash, not a hyphen. In
the humanities and social sciences, at least, hyphens are used for
compound word (with a few exceptions). :-(
The en dash (#8211;) is used to indicate a range of just about
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of
letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This is
using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually
balanced in non-Western I am having to add -0.1em kerning between it
and
Hi,
(thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW)
Herbert Voss writes:
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning
of letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This
is using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of
letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This is
using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually
balanced in non-Western I am
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Hi,
(thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW)
Herbert Voss writes:
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning
of letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This
is using the standard CM font. To
Andre Poenitz writes:
I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
circumstances.
That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-) There can't be too
many more than about 65K possible combinations I would think --
apologies in advance if my math is wrong.
Using a manual
Herbert Voss writes:
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
[...]
This kerns better it seems, but it is an en-dash, not a hyphen. In
the humanities and social sciences, at least, hyphens are used for
compound word (with a few exceptions). :-(
The en dash (#8211;) is used to indicate a range of just about
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of
letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This is
using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually
balanced in "non-Western" I am having to add -0.1em kerning between it
Hi,
(thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW)
Herbert Voss writes:
> Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> > I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning
> > of letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This
> > is using the standard CM font. To get the
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of
> letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This is
> using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually
> balanced in
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Hi,
(thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW)
Herbert Voss writes:
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning
of letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This
is using the standard CM font.
Andre Poenitz writes:
> I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all
> circumstances.
That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-) There can't be too
many more than about 65K possible combinations I would think --
apologies in advance if my math is wrong.
> Using a
Herbert Voss writes:
> Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
[...]
> > This kerns better it seems, but it is an en-dash, not a hyphen. In
> > the humanities and social sciences, at least, hyphens are used for
> > compound word (with a few exceptions). :-(
>
> The en dash () is used to indicate a range of just
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