Intolerable difference in glyph width: font=vnbx12

[Werner LEMBERG]

Hello Phil,


>>> If my assumptions are correct xetex doesn't use the widths
>>> provided by the metrics files but determines them from the actual
>>> glyph outlines in the fonts.
>>
>> No, it doesn't.
> 
> That last comment is unclear, at least to me Werner — [doesn't]
> "determine them from the actual glyph outlines in the fonts" or
> [doesn't] "use the widths provided by the metrics files"?

The former.


    Werner