On 9/21/2010 7:28 AM, Gareth Hughes wrote:
The Syriac font Estrangelo Edessa leaves noticeable white space before
the letter ܓ when it is preceded by a non-joining letter. It seems
this is a carry over from old metal type. Some people see it as a
feature rather than a bug, but I wanted to provide a fairly smart user
command for closing up that white space, and have written something
with \XeTeXinterchartoks to do so. However, it is important that this
kerning isn't applied when other Syriac fonts, which have no gap, are
being set.
I hope that makes the situation a little more clear.
It does, although it also leads to a dangerous situation where you need
more than just the font name: you also need to know the font version,
too. If the type designers at some point (which could even be tomorrow)
decide that this kerning quirk is actually unwanted, and produce a new
version of the font with the same name, your "fix" will actually be
detrimental. To my knowledge there is no way to ask fontspec for a font
version number, but perhaps Will or Khaled know more about this.
- Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
nihongoresources.com
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