Adam, Thanks for the detailed analysis and testcase.
It looks like this is an instance of http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/7753. JK On 7 Feb 2011, at 01:31, Adam Twardoch (List) wrote: > I have identified this issue as a serious bug in XeTeX. > > In MinionPro-Regular.otf (version 2.068 is the one I have, but it's > likely that it applies to all versions), the relevant kerning definition > excerpt looks like the following: > > feature kern { > lookup kern1 { > pos uni0423 uni0431.ital -53; > subtable; > pos [uni040E uni0423 uni0474] [uni0435 uni043E uni0441 > uni0444 uni0451 uni0454 uni0473 uni0431.ital] -118; > } kern1; > } kern; > > This means that there is an individual kern value between uni0423 > uni0431.ital with the value of -53, then a subtable break, then a > class-based value for the same pair of -118. > > Adobe InDesign CS5 correctly identifies the pair in the first subtable > (-53) as the one that it should apply, and ignores the second value. So > the kern comes out as -53. > > It very much looks like XeTeX *incorrectly* parses *both* subtables, and > applies a sum of both the individual and the class value (-53-118 = > -171), which results in a very deep kern, and therefore an overlap. > > This seems to be a serious, systematic bug in the way XeTeX (or its > underlying ICU Layout library) processes the GPOS table. > > I've made an isolated test case that confirmes it. > > I've created a test OpenType font. It defines a kerning pair A B -300, a > subtable break, and again the same pair. InDesign correctly applies only > the first value (-300), which is shown in the > SubtableKernTest-InDesign.pdf file. XeTeX applies both values > consecutively, which is shown in SubtableKernTest-XeTeX.pdf > > All the test files (.ttf, .fea feature definitions, .tex and two PDFs) > are available at > http://www.twardoch.com/tmp/SubtableKernTest.zip > > I've also sent the test files offline to Jonathan Kew. > > Many thanks to Alessandro Ceschini for raising the issue. > > Regards, > Adam > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex