[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro XeTex xetex@tug.org

2011-02-06 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
-2ex is OK, it looks remarkably like the output FontForge proposes. To John: I don't think there should be copyright infringements, as I'm modifying output, not the font per se. And what's more it's XeTeX that gets it wrong, by apparently ignoring the *right* kerning set by font designers. What

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro XeTex xetex@tug.org

2011-02-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.02.2011 um 14:02 schrieb Alessandro Ceschini: -2ex is OK, it looks remarkably like the output FontForge proposes. You probably mean -0.2ex. 2ex is twice the width of an x. This would make the two characters change positions and sequence... Now, back to the kerning=mykerns, I heard

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro XeTex xetex@tug.org

2011-02-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.02.2011 um 15:44 schrieb Herbert Schulz: Hmmm... I thought 1ex was the height of an `x', not it's width, which makes measuring a width using ex's is kind of strange. A dimension or length is a dimension or length. Do you give the size of a box in ex \times em? Is a height inch

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro XeTex xetex@tug.org

2011-02-06 Thread Andrew Moschou
On 7 February 2011 02:07, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 06.02.2011 um 15:44 schrieb Herbert Schulz: Hmmm... I thought 1ex was the height of an `x', not it's width, which makes measuring a width using ex's is kind of strange. A dimension or length is a dimension or