Re: [NTG-pdftex] /cwm

13 Mar 2006

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"Vladimir" == Vladimir Volovich  writes:
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"RK" == Reinhard Kotucha writes:
  RK> As far as I can see, it's reasonable to add a new primitive so
  RK> that you can write
RK> \font\myfont=xyz \myfont \compwordkern\font = .2em

  RK> The TeX macro which breaks ligatures then can insert
  RK> \compwordkern for the current font.

  RK> This way we can have different kernings for different fonts and
  RK> we are completey independ of the fonts we use.
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i think that you may utilize fontdimen for that - no need for a
new macro...  after loading a font, you are allowed to modify the
fontdimen registers (or you may decide to store the compwordkern
in the fontdimen directly in the TFM). as an advantage, it will
also be automatically scaled depending on the "magnification" of
the font.
Yes, but isn't the number of fontdimen registers quite limited?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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