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Re: bugs in the font metrics for symbol fonts
From: |
Jeff Kingston |
Subject: |
Re: bugs in the font metrics for symbol fonts |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:08:47 +1100 |
> Where should I look to dig into this deeper?
A fun way to investigate these kinds of things is to
print the suspect characters in a very large font,
enclosed in a @Box with margin { 0i }. The box
will exactly reflect the font metrics, and so
you can see clearly whether they agree with the
actual print area.
I'm not sure that I would be keen to actually change
the font metrics file. It came from Adobe. A better
bet would be to package up the combinations you need,
using overstriking to correct for the problems. If
you use something like
@OneCol { @Sym arrowleft |0.456fo @Sym arrowright }
you can make something that works at any scale.
Hope this helps.
Jeff Kingston
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