Re: Re(4): Italic open-o in omega - kerning question

[Sorry if my previous note was a bit 'pointed' - I 
know everyone works hard on Omega and I do 
apprciate that]

Hello, 

How to support kerning?

Kerning and ligatures are supported by the Omega 
'Level-1' font files. 

A single 'level-1' OPL file can contain the 
kerning and ligature information for a whole 
unicode font. It's applied 'over the top' of the 
'split up' font files that are generated to do the 
actual rendering. 

I made one for Unicode Chinese so that I didn't 
get 'hanging' brackets and punctuation  which you 
get with Chinese if you use 'level-0' fonts.

 
(Unfortunately, as I have said before in this 
group, 'level-1' font support doesn't actually 
work, because of bugs in the code. I fixed it up 
and sent my fixes in, but they still don't seem to 
have made it into the CVS or anyone's 
distribution!)

Cheers 

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Italic open-o in omega


On Saturday 31 May 2003 14:17, Vladimir Volovich 
wrote:
> "YH" == Yannis Haralambous writes:
>
>  YH> That's exactly what Gábor's odvips does: it 
generates the small
>  YH> PFB files on the fly.
>
> maybe it's not necessary, and one can instead 
reencode the big PFB
> font to several encodings, i.e. create several 
.enc files, and put
> all re-encoded fonts into .map file?

I think, it is not very logical to break a large 
unicode font to smaller
ones only for further junction to another large 
font. Or at least
this job should be done fully automatically. 
That's
why using .enc files doesn't seem to be a good 
solution.

And again, there are two questions I've already 
asked:
how can we preserve the kerning information and 
which encodings
should we use for these *.enc files?

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