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NiLuJe · 02-15-2015, 03:56 PM

@IceHand: IIRC, because this came up w/ KOReader when I looked into it, the kerning mentioned is only FreeType's very, very, very basic kerning support, which is (according both to FT's docs and my testing) fairly useless. Kerning's the job of a layout engine (w/ a FT/FC stack, usually harfbuzz, or something using harfbuzz [cairo+pango/Qt]), something that's mostly nonexistent with CRe.

TL;DR: Nope.

02-15-2015, 03:56 PM	#2
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047190 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@IceHand: IIRC, because this came up w/ KOReader when I looked into it, the kerning mentioned is only FreeType's very, very, very basic kerning support, which is (according both to FT's docs and my testing) fairly useless. Kerning's the job of a layout engine (w/ a FT/FC stack, usually harfbuzz, or something using harfbuzz [cairo+pango/Qt]), something that's mostly nonexistent with CRe. TL;DR: Nope. Last edited by NiLuJe; 02-15-2015 at 03:58 PM.