[NTG-pdftex] /cwm

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Vladimir" == Vladimir Volovich <vvv at vsu.ru> writes:

  > "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.

  > 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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