Char. spacing (kerning?) basics? (Take II)

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Dick Margulis wondered: <<I wasn't aware that browsers access kerning 
tables at all. Does this vary among browsers? Do they just call the 
OS's rasterizer for this function?>>

It's the latter that I meant: so far as I know, all browsers display 
type using the operating system's rasterizer (in my original message, I 
said "the kerning table" to refer to whatever algorithms the rasterizer 
uses to display type at an appropriate character spacing).

<<Bonnie Granat set me straight on that last night. American Typewriter 
is a proportional font that "resembles" a typewriter font in glyph 
shape. If you open it up in your font browser, you'll see.>>

Don't have that font installed, so I can't see it myself, but I have no 
reason to doubt Bonnie. I was working from memory here, and recalled a 
font with "typewriter" in the name that was a nonproportional font 
designed to do a better job of spacing than was the case with Courier. 
Guess I remembered wrong!

--Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)


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