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From: davis@b11.ingr.com (Chris Davis)
Newsgroups: ingr.x,comp.windows.x
Subject: Font question
Keywords: x, font
Message-ID: <9755@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 28 Dec 90 16:06:20 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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Why do some variable width fonts have negative lbearings?  I could not
find any documentation that mentions the reasoning behind this.

If you look at the font "-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-*",
the 'A' and the 'm' have negative lbearings.  Is there a reason for this?

We are writing a terminal program and we would like to use this font,
but those two cases of negative lbearings are creating several special
cases to have to be dealt with.

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chris davis
uunet!davis@ingr.com