Hi, here ist the next thing: the thinspace (as in \,) is used widely by varios packages, i.e. for typesetting units like 3\,mm and it is usually equal to thinmuskip in math mode. It is defined as 3/18 from the quad (= 0.1667em). I think, it is generally a bad idea to change this amount. At least, fontinst and the one who creates the TeX font metrics, can not influence that space.
Let's look at the min. interword space. It is the difference between interword space (\fontdimen2) and shrink (\fontdimen4). Fontinst sets by default first dimen to the width of the space glyph and the second one to 0.24 of the first width. Now, things get ugly on a narrow typesetted line in case that the min. interword space is narrower than the thinspace. The thinspace then doesn't look thin at all compared to the interword space. This is the situation i.e. with the MinionPro fonts (not fontinst's fault ;) where at 10pt the min. interword space is 1.513pt but the \thinspace is 1.667pt. So, I think fontinst should check both dimensions and guarantee that the default min. interword space is always slightly (whatever that means) bigger then \thinspace, or if the dimension is set explicitly, fontinst should issue a warning. best regards -- Plamen Tanovski Prager Str. 125 04317 Leipzig, Germany Tel. +49 341 3085760 _______________________________________________ fontinst mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/fontinst
