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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Hitch, are you sureyou are using the term kerning correctly? Kerning works just fine with my H2O using RMDSK and a font that supports kerning.
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The definition varies with "environment", so it is hard to pin down. "Kerning" in CSS terms is not what "kerning" means in standard electronic typography and the meaning is somewhat different when discussing hand set metal type.
Outside of the CSS world, "kerning" only refers to custom letterspacing between specific pairs of characters.The "kerning" done by RMDSK is this type of spacing and it requires that the font file contain a table of character pairs and their associated spacing adjustment. Global spacing changes across a range of characters is "tracking" in the general electronic typesetting world. With metal type, "kerning" is limited to custom reduction of spacing between specific character pair and is not the appropriate term when there is an increase in the spacing, whether between specific pairs or a range of characters.
There are similar varying definitions of "font" between the 3 worlds.