Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!valeria.cs.ucla.edu!wales From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: How to define kerning for a soft font? Message-ID: <38752@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 7 Sep 90 16:54:32 GMT References: <38743@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <12990@paperboy.OSF.ORG> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles Lines: 25 In article <38743@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> I asked for ideas regarding auto- matic generation of kerning info. In article <12990@paperboy.OSF.ORG> daniel@osf.org (Daniel Dardailler) replied: You can't generate kerning tables (pair or track) with only the knowledge of the character codes. You might think that when you have "AV" then you can remove some pixels to the left, but it's not always the case. There are about 100 to 300 pair kerning entries in a standard font, and most of them depend on the shape of the glyph, not only of the relative codes. Apparently my original article was misunderstood. It was never my intention to generate kerning solely on the basis of the character codes. What I was intending to do was to create the actual shapes (glyphs) within the program -- then see how the shapes of various pairs of characters happen to fit together in a given font. -- -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 // +1 (213) 825-5683 "You must not drink the tea. It is deadly to humans."