(continued)
If I built from the latest sources with OpenType *off*, I get the results I
apparently am "meant" to get:
This is somewhere between the completely unkerned look of Miwarre's
versions and the fully kerned look of my previous versions. Here, the "rj"
kerns as expected (at least for FreeSerif), and I guess I get the very
slight kerning of VA as well. None to speak of in "Te", although it does
somehow look tighter in my FreeSerif version, like maybe different bearings
or something. Or maybe that's an illusion.
Loading the correct (latest) SFD into FontForge, I can verify ne aspect of
what Miwarre says - there is no kerning at all for "Te", and very little
for "VA". Whereas with the older sources I had accidentally downloaded,
there was pretty significant kerning - a value of -86 for that "Te", for
example.
The bottom line for me is still that I still get kerning with OpenType
turned *off* but don't get it with it turned *on*. I just don't get as
much kerning as I'd like ever with OpenType *off* - apparently because,
indeed, the info just isn't there in the SFD for some reason, even though
it was present in older sources.
Hopefully this clarifies my concerns. I guess it's not our problem if for
some reason Gnu removed a bunch of the kerning info that was present in
older versions of these fonts, but I do still think we need to build TTF's
with OpenType *off* for Linux and Windows in order to get whatever kerning
there is to work under Qt 5.4.
Marc
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