Re: XeTeX 1.0 - request for comments

On 17 Oct 2005, at 10:17 am, Stephen Moye wrote:

> 15/10/2005, 6am - Jonathan Kew wrote:
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> > f. Proper individual character metrics when using native OS X  
> > fonts. This is harder than it sounds, as TeX wants to know height,  
> > depth, and italic correction for each character, and this  
> > information is not present in fonts, only in .tfm's. And it can't  
> > be derived accurately from the glyph outlines, either.
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> I am loathe to be tedious, as Bruno Voisin and Will Robertson have  
> already commented on this, and I have had an earlier email exchange  
> on this same topic. Still, for the record...

No need to be apologetic; I asked because I wanted to hear! And if  
lots of people seem to be saying the same thing, I might notice. ;)

JK