Re: [Groff] Goofy spacing in devps

[Timothy Groves]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:02:49 -0500
Alejandro Lopez-Valencia <address@hidden> wrote:

> At 01:03 p.m. 23/04/2003, Timothy Groves wrote:
> >I don't know if this a new issue, or particular to my machine.  The
> >spacing on all fonts appears rather odd when I select Postscript
> >output. Especially, around the letters l, i, f and j.  Especially
> >when these letters are clumped near each other.  Has anyone else
> >noticed this?  Is it an ongoing issue?
> 
> 
> Are you sure you are not confusing kerning and ligatures with "bad
> spacing"?
> 
> If you try to print your document with, say, Helvetica or Courier, do
> you have the same spacing problems?

Not knowing much about typesetting, I do not know what kerning and
ligature is.  My letters tend to run together, or be spaced out too far.
It occurs consistently;  certain words are mangled the same every time. 
The condition appears to be independant of font;  I have tried using
three different fonts, and get identical results;  the words are mangled
exactly the same way in Helvetica as they are in Courier.

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