Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:17:26 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104170912020.10708-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417000441.00dd9340@localhost>
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:03 AM 4/17/2001, Kris Kirby wrote: > > >What is kerning? > > Kerning is the adjustment of the spacing between characters. > The most aesthetically pleasing spacing -- and the one that > yields the most legible text -- usuall depends on what > characters they are and what order they're in, as well as > the typeface. (It scales, of course, with font size.) Compare this to the way "fi" appears in generic TeX output. The dot of the i is the cap of the f. I think Knuth goes over this in the first page of the TeX Book. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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