Re: TAN: Fonts

I'm using Fontmonger to construct the font.  I don't recall if it can
make a PostScript font or not.  Will I continue to have this problem
only with the screen display (which I can live with), or will the
gaps appear with some printers, as well?

-- Terry

At 09:06 PM 7/29/99 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
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>
>While fiddling with the width is the academically accepted way of making
>ligatures and accents, Microsoft doesn't support it really, and whether
>it works on-screen depends very much on which wordprocessor you use. For
>instance, with Lotus Word it never works; the later version of Microsoft
>Word can be too smart (and, for instance, advance the cursor with the
>width of the smallest character in your font), but Word 2 works fine,
>almost always. It all depends on how smart the kerning interpretation
>of the wordprocessor is.
>
>I don't have a recent version of Windows myself (I stopped at 95, release
>1), so I don't know how this works with 98 and NT, but I know that the
>rendering engine in NT is vastly different from the one in 95 - to the
>point that the height of a 12-point character isn't the same in pixels!
>
>What software do you use for making your font? Have you tried using a
>PostScript font instead of a TrueType? I use Fontlab 2.5 and ScanFont
>myself.
>
>Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt
>