On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:43:29PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 04:19:25PM -0400, Cole Leahy wrote: > > Also, as I feared would happen, the kerning on exponents, commas, and > > the like isn't ideal. Is there a way to get around this that's more > > efficient > > than tweaking hspace as needed? > > This is because regular OpenType fonts lack italic correction, and the > only way to include it is by editing the font itself (it is not a hard > job; can be take an hour or in FontForge depending on the number of > glyphs).
I was just thinking, one can write a plain text file (TSV or something) having code points and corresponding italic correction and a 10 lines python script would read that and feed it to the font using fontforge python module. I should try that. Hmm, even better, another few tens of lines and it can guess italic correction... Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
