From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 17 9:12:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6455B37B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f3HGCHq53615 ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:12:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id SAA98358 ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:12:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:12:16 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: James Howard Cc: Brett Glass , Kris Kirby , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <20010417181216.I74385@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417000441.00dd9340@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from howardjp@well.com on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:17:26AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James Howard said on Apr 17, 2001 at 09:17:26: > 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. Actually, that's "ligature", not "kerning". R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message