Add kerning after apostrophe

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Add kerning after apostrophe #6

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

It seems there's kerning information before a curly apostrophe (aka single 
right quote), as in L’ or n’, but there is no kerning *after* the 
apostrophe, which would be desirable for things like d’Artagnan, c’est, or 
L’occhio.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jel...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2011 at 12:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by andrej.panov on 1 Sep 2011 at 12:31

Changed state: Accepted

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Fixed in svn.

Original comment by andrej.panov on 6 Sep 2011 at 1:06

Changed state: Fixed

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

It might also be a good idea to add kerning between single/double open/close 
quotes, to help separating them. I often see a space between the quotes, as in:

“He said ‘please’ ”

but I think this would better be done by font kerning, so that I'd just write:

“He said ‘please’”

and the font would take care of separating ’ and ”.

If this is accepted, don't forget cases like:

‘’tis so’  (some kerning between ‘ and ’)

Original comment by jel...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2011 at 10:54

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

I think that kerning for “‘ and ’” is needless, since kerned pairs will 
look like triple qoutes. Currently the distance between double/single quotes is 
not very large.

Original comment by andrej.panov on 24 Oct 2011 at 2:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Maybe I wasn't clear, I mean positive kerning, so that double and single quotes 
would be more clearly separated and not look like triple quotes at all. You say 
the distance is not very large, I think it should be slightly larger.

Original comment by jel...@gmail.com on 24 Oct 2011 at 12:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

I have decided to keep “‘ and ’” pairs untouched. There is enough space 
between quotes to differ from the triple quotes.

Original comment by andrej.panov on 21 Nov 2011 at 4:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Unfortunately, kerning was added for some letters, but not for their accented 
friends. For example, c’est and c’était have different spacing after the 
apostrophe.

Original comment by jel...@gmail.com on 5 May 2012 at 9:11