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- From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
- Subject: Re: Query: kerns, accents, ligatures
- In-Reply-To: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of 9 Nov 92 14:55:51 GMT
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- Organization: Institutt for Humanistisk Informatikk, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
- References: <11396@leonard.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:53:58 GMT
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- In article <11396@leonard.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
- [ Stuff about ligatures and kerning deleted ]
-
- ... and that's why I use PostScript fonts. In (most of) them, the accented
- characters are supplied as letters in their own right, complete with
- kerning information.
-
- One common problem with the \'e-like constructs stems from thir being
- tailored for Computer Modern - \AA in Times doesn't look right (try it).
-
- Why TeX ignores kerning, and avoids hyphenation in the \'e -like macros I
- don't know, but I sure would like to.
-
- :-(*) Oh, and a final note: In Danish and Norwegian, \aa, \ae and \o are
- not ligatures, they're letters. They are very common. Designing a
- 256-glyph font that lacks these three characters is a crime. :-()
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- Rolf Lindgren | "The opinions expressed above are
- 616 Bjerke Studentheim | not necessarily those of anyone"
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