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- TechPhonetic was designed by Rob Kassel at the MIT Spoken Language
- Systems Group. It is based on GoudyOldStyle from Altsys. It is
- freely distributable but not public domain.
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- Kerning
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- If you're using the kerning (specified in the AFM file) you may be
- surprised. There is a substantial amount of kerning that falls in the
- following classes:
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- 1) Superscripts for on- and off-glides are designed to kern with
- adjoining characters. If you want to disable this kerning insert a
- non-breaking space character (202). A singlenon-breaking space
- adds no horizontal space per se.
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- 2) Diacritics meant to be centered over/under symbols will
- automatically center via kerning. Again, non-breaking space
- characters can be inserted to disable this. After such centering,
- you'll need to insert enough non-breaking spaces to space over to
- where the main character left off. You'll have to look at the
- width differences (always a multiple of ten milli-ems) and divide
- by the width of the non-breaking space (five milli-ems) and further
- divide by two. In addition, diacritics will center with other
- diacritics.
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- This is very preliminary documentation.
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- Lee Hetherington
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Laboratory for Computer Science
- Spoken Language Systems
- ilh@lcs.mit.edu
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