On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 08:25:05PM +0000, Jonathan Kew wrote: > On 6/11/14 20:10, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:32:26AM -0800, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > >>On 14-11-05 11:50 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>>Tahoma (at least the version shipped in Windows 7) has a kern table, > >>>but no kern feature in its GPOS table, so HarfBuzz will not apply the > >>>kern table as Behdad described. Uniscribe does not apply the kern > >>>table here either AFAICT, so I think the font is working as intended. > >> > >>That was indeed my thinking before. From what I remember, Uniscribe *never* > >>applied the TrueType 'kern' table; it was left to applications to do that. > >> > >>So I think what I like to see is: on versions of Windows that ship with such > >>fonts, does notepad apply kerning? If it does, we should do in HarfBuzz. > >>Otherwise I'm leaning towards keeping HarfBuzz as is. > > > >I tried notepad while testing this and it did not apply kerning for that > >font (I got kerning in few other random fonts I tried, just in case). > > In the fonts where you did get kerning, is there a GPOS 'kern' feature > present?
I tried some Adobe fonts so I think those have a kern feature, but I tried some MS fonts as well (I don't recall which fonts and I don't have that machine around to check again now). Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
