Since we didn't find any native Windows app which applies kerning for these fonts, Eskil just re-considered the described report from "regression" to "fix" ;)
Thanks guys. Regards, Konstantin 2014-11-07 10:22 GMT+04:00 Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org>: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 08:25:05PM +0000, Jonathan Kew wrote: > > On 6/11/14 20:10, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > >On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:32:26AM -0800, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > >>On 14-11-05 11:50 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > >>>Tahoma (at least the version shipped in Windows 7) has a kern table, > > >>>but no kern feature in its GPOS table, so HarfBuzz will not apply the > > >>>kern table as Behdad described. Uniscribe does not apply the kern > > >>>table here either AFAICT, so I think the font is working as intended. > > >> > > >>That was indeed my thinking before. From what I remember, Uniscribe > *never* > > >>applied the TrueType 'kern' table; it was left to applications to do > that. > > >> > > >>So I think what I like to see is: on versions of Windows that ship > with such > > >>fonts, does notepad apply kerning? If it does, we should do in > HarfBuzz. > > >>Otherwise I'm leaning towards keeping HarfBuzz as is. > > > > > >I tried notepad while testing this and it did not apply kerning for that > > >font (I got kerning in few other random fonts I tried, just in case). > > > > In the fonts where you did get kerning, is there a GPOS 'kern' feature > > present? > > I tried some Adobe fonts so I think those have a kern feature, but I > tried some MS fonts as well (I don't recall which fonts and I don't have > that machine around to check again now). > > Regards, > Khaled >
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