From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 17 6:17:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from po3.glue.umd.edu (po3.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54D537B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@well.com) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:root@z.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.71]) by po3.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f3HDHWO28025; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:17:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA13131; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:17:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13094; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:17:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: z.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:17:26 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard X-Sender: howardjp@z.glue.umd.edu To: Brett Glass Cc: Kris Kirby , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417000441.00dd9340@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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