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Class Kerning and Ligatures
It just came to my attention that class-based kerning isn't being applied to ligatures in a number of my fonts. Here's the class definition:
%%CLASS _i_right
%%GLYPHS i' fi ffi dotlessi iacute icircumflex idieresis igrave imacron iogonek itilde dottediacute
%%KERNING R 0
%%END
The fi and ffi glyphs are so named in the fonts, and swap out just fine. Any ideas?
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5 Apr 2012 — 2:34pm
Soooo...nobody else has encountered this problem? Bummer. I really had hoped to solve this problem before another pass through 900+ fonts to update them...
7 Apr 2012 — 5:32am
FontLab's "right class" means that a class represents the right (second) partner of a kern pair. That means you should make this a left class. As it is now, fi will follow the kerning of i when it appears on the right hand side of a kern pair.
7 Apr 2012 — 9:30am
Thanks, Jens: did the trick. The solution was almost as simple as I am...
7 Apr 2012 — 12:05pm
Anything is simple once you know how, as a sage once put it; however, I've found that forgetfulness can ruin that premise...