Re: [Groff] Musings on the adding of fonts

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 02:26 a.m. 28/02/2002 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > It could be if the kerning was included in a type 2 multiple state
> > table.
>
> *Very* unlikely (at least currently).
>
> > As far as I know, only QuickDraw GX fonts (presently know as AAT
> > fonts) and OpenType fonts use this kind of table. But this should
> > not be a problem to anything using freetype 2.x in the back end.
>
> FreeType 2 doesn't have built-in support for that.


Hmm... I had the delusion of having read somewhere in the last six months 
that FreeType 2 had the capability if cross-linked with t1lib.

> > No. It is the fonts supplied by your vendor. I have never seen a
> > truetype font released by Hewlett-Packard that had kerning, nor the
> > previous versions first by Miles, Inc. nor later by Elsewhere (each
> > bought the previous in due time).
>
> Believe it or not, well designed fonts very often don't need
> hinting.   But this is another topic...


Absolutely right. But aren't we talking about kerning in this particular 
sub-thread? ;)

> >  Perhaps you can do something with the metrics files
> > available at CTAN/fonts/ljmetrics.
>
> The original metric files for the LJ4 are available from
>
>   ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/faxes/software/tfmlj4.exe


Found them at

    ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/faxes/software/tfmlj4p.exe

Thanks for the information. (It is a DOS self-extracting zip file, 
regardless the weird appearance).


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