Re: Ugly in ascii was: RE: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess...

Joe Fatula wrote:
> From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
> Subject: Re: Ugly in ascii was: RE: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess...
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>>By the way... I just thought I should point out that
>>Word is *very* good at smashing two letters together.
>>In fact, so good at it that it likes to show its
>>abilities off! About the only use I can think of that
>>is when someone tells you you *must* do it in Word, so
>>you do it in LaTeX with the Times font and have it
>>smash random letters together.
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> Oh cool!  How do you make it do that?  Is there a backwards-space character?
> That'd make a lot of font stuff really easy!
I think you can fiddle with the kerning somehow. But I was more
complaining about Word's brilliant font engine. I'm can't remember what
the printed results look like,* but onscreen you so often get (Word 97
on Windows 2000 at least, Word 2000/XP may have fixed it up) letters too
close to each other. This is one reason why I cannot stand Word.

*PDFs made my Word have this problem too.

Also, to Teoh: I noticed that your v-ogonek had the ogonek dangling
*after* the bottom of the v, where it logically would connect (it just
looks plain stupid as it is). Is there some way to fix that (preferably
in such a way that it'd work for any font/size and any letter, like w)?

Tristan.