> > You have to call afmtodit with the "-i" option when
> > generating the description file for the italic fonts
> > (the manual page says that "-i50" was used for the
> > standard fonts).
>
> Thanks for the tip. Peter and I have been discussing how
> best to get install-font.sh to support this.
> I think groff's rationale for requiring user-entry of italic
> correction is sound. Unlike pair-wise kerning, there are as
> many places where italic correction isn't desirable as there
> are ones where it is.
But Gunnar and Dave are correct in claiming that it shouldn't
be necessary to reques
> So does Heirloom troff's implementation work by using newly
> created tables akin to the ones for kerning? Or does it use
> an algorithm to generate an intelligent guess?
You have to enter the values manually, using a "kernpair" request.
(You decide which font you're pairing with which other
On 11/11/13, Denis M. Wilson wrote:
> Kerning applies to glyphs from the same face, but italic correction
> applies to glyphs from different faces for which there are no tables.
> Usually (but probably not always) the latter is between words and
> punctuation, but the amount is an intelligent gues
