Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:12:16 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <20010417181216.I74385@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104170912020.10708-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>; from howardjp@well.com on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:17:26AM -0400 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417000441.00dd9340@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104170912020.10708-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>
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James Howard said on Apr 17, 2001 at 09:17:26: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > > > At 12:03 AM 4/17/2001, Kris Kirby wrote: > > > > >What is kerning? > > > > Kerning is the adjustment of the spacing between characters. > > The most aesthetically pleasing spacing -- and the one that > > yields the most legible text -- usuall depends on what > > characters they are and what order they're in, as well as > > the typeface. (It scales, of course, with font size.) > > Compare this to the way "fi" appears in generic TeX output. The dot of > the i is the cap of the f. I think Knuth goes over this in the first page > of the TeX Book. Actually, that's "ligature", not "kerning". R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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