From: Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD (pzi@ingerman.org)
Date: Thu Nov 27 2008 - 07:14:18 CST
Agreed. After all, in the days when my father hand-set type, 72 points
was 0.9958 inches ... and, thanks to computers, it's now 1.0000 inches
because it's more convenient. Pfui!
Peter Ingerman
Christopher Fynn wrote:
> verdy_p wrote:
> ..
>
>> I remain convinced that 'kerning' should concern all types of
>> pair-specific position adjustment of anchors, i.e. the difference of
>> position between the default position indicated by a single glyph id
>> alone, be it horizontal, or vertical or both, and independatly of the
>> type of anchor considered (for the horizontal advance width in a
>> horizontal layout of characters in horizontal orientation, or for any
>> other types of anchors, including bounding box definition anchors and
>> caret positioning anchors for editing that may sometimes be within
>> the bounding box).
>
>
> ...
>
> Please, whatever your convictions, let typographers, type designers,
> typesetters, and others who work intimately with type on a day to day
> basis define the meaning and scope of terms like 'kern'. Terms from
> that field of expertise should not be defined by what computer
> programmers, character encoding specialists and others think they
> should mean.
>
> - Chris
>
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