Re: Ligatures (qj)

From: jameskass@att.net
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 18:29:14 EST

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Joop Jagers wrote,

> The problem of overlapping glyphs should IMO not be solved by creating
> ligatures, but by kerning the offending pairs of glyphs. A program like
> Font Creator can do this quite easily.

Do any of the popular browser implement kerning, either the old
TrueType table or the new OpenType GPOS kerning?

One plain text Unicode editor does implement the OpenType GPOS
kerning tables, Andrew C. West's BabelPad editor:
http://uk.geocities.com/BabelStone1357

Best regards,

James Kass
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