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OpenType Unicode fonts for Scientific, Technical, and Mathematical texts
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kerning in small caps #36

Closed davidmjones closed 6 years ago

davidmjones commented 11 years ago

I'm using latex. The small caps "y" and "ÿ "seem to be very far apart from "a", and "ÿ" seems to be even farther than "y". Small cap "j" is very close to small cap "e" and, when both are bold, "j" touches "e". Capital "Ÿ" has not the same kerning than capital "Y". See attach file.

Reported by: kitanokuma

Original Ticket: stixfonts/tracking/36

davidmjones commented 11 years ago

Original comment by: kitanokuma

davidmjones commented 11 years ago

Original comment by: stipub

davidmjones commented 11 years ago

The lack of kerning for "Ÿ" is inherited from OpenType fonts which don't have a kerning pair for AŸ as well. Because our small caps are just scaled down capitals the same issue was propagated. There are many similarly missing kerning pairs for accented characters. The STIX project acknowledges the deficiency in the text portion of the font. The LaTeX stix package addresses this by providing the notext option, allowing a mature text font to be substituted.

The bold smallcap "je" problem was fixed in the the v1.1.0-latex release.

Original comment by: stipub