calculating kerning pairs

From	Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	calculating kerning pairs
Date	2022-08-06 23:49 +0000
Message-ID	<jl8d0lFdt3qU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)

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Hello, I naively assumed that when I did setfont (foo) show that the
kerning pairs in the font tables would influence spacing.

I understand now that it does not. You're supposed to use kshow and
apply the character spacing yourself.

Fair enough, but then how do I get the "base" kerning for a character
pair from within postscript, or do you have to parse the afm files
manually?

I understand that I can specify any kerning I want and that's a good
thing, but wouldn't you usually want that to be a multiplier applied to
the font's "base" kerning pairs?

Tavis.

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