[XeTeX] experimental new xetex version - with margin-kerning support

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:14:21PM -0400, maxwell wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2010 21:39:58 +0100, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > The keywords used to specify \lpcode and \rpcode values for native-font
> > glyphs have been changed ...
> 
> Since as I understand it, it's necessary to list each character that one
> wants to allow to protrude, and since there's probably a lot of art to this
> (well, maybe not a lot, but probably more than I possess), I wonder if it
> would be useful to share tables of lpcode and rpcode values.  While they
> would presumably be font-specific, (a) some fonts are widely used (Charis
> SIL, for example), and (b) a table for one font might at least serve as a
> starting point for a table for another font.

Microtype already have such tables for common type1 fonts, so I think
such collection naturally belongs there (once there is support for xetex
of course).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer