Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Getting Rid Of PostScript Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <52007eb3-d23e-4938-bb11-08ff341ed5a9@googlegroups.com> <6b468791-b385-4476-b6ba-400fa4b8a756@googlegroups.com> <0e9ef922-0fbb-4bf1-b8b8-3a4c8bb24f4b@googlegroups.com> <76c2a057-6627-4de9-88fc-ca3e1c37c256@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1476385671 3904 166.84.1.3 (13 Oct 2016 19:07:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:07:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2882 In article <76c2a057-6627-4de9-88fc-ca3e1c37c256@googlegroups.com>, luser droog wrote: >On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 9:07:59 PM UTC-5, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> On Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 2:39:36 PM UTC+13, luser droog wrote: >>> I have a favorite pet postscript program that I >>> believe is best (perhaps even only possible in ps: >>> >http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/117320/document-formatting-markup-engine-in-postscript >> >> I see it requires you to manually set up kerning pairs, rather than >automatically getting them from the font. >> > >That is indeed a defect in PostScript that I must concede. >There does not appear to be a standard way to access the >font's kerning tables. That's cause a PostScript font doesn't contain any kerning tables. Kerning pairs are found in the fonts AFM file. -- -- Rod -- rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com