Re: [ft-devel] is it possible to retrieve whole kerning table?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > This won't happen.  Please remember that modern OpenType fonts
> > don't have a `kern' table but a `kern' feature in the `GPOS'
> > table.
> 
> But I guess a truetype kern table is just a special case of GPOS,
> namely a GPOS pair-adjustment table.

This is correct.

> That's what I had in mind, to make a more general interface to
> kerning tables, in order to reduce the number of special cases all
> the higher level libraries need to handle.

What do you mean with `reduce the number of special cases'?  GPOS
pair-adjustment tables can be defined in very complicated ways, and it
doesn't make sense for me to single out certain cases and handle them
on the FreeType level.


    Werner