Kerning Two Characters From Different Charact

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:06 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: A customer using 5.1 with an HP Series II wanted to Kern two characters from different character maps. Kerning is normally performed with two characters of the same character map. The steps below will show how to Kern two characters from different maps together. 1 - Type PTR at the DOS prompt 2 - Retrieve the desired .PRS file, press Enter 3 - Cursor to Fonts, press Enter 4 - Cursor to the desired font, press Enter 5 - Cursor to desired Character map, press Enter 6 - The list of characters will appear on the screen Some characters may include a code such as r8[171]pc8. This code is similar to 1,5 but instructs the program to change to the Roman 8 character map, print character 171 and then change back to the PC-8 character map. This is the same step that will be followed to Kern the two characters from different character maps. 7 - Press Ctrl-Enter then F9 for Strings 8 - Select option 1 to Add and press Ctrl-Enter for the default 9 - Type the name that will be associated with the string, press Enter. 10 - Press Enter again to position the cursor on the right side, ready for entering a code. 11 - Enter the desired code The customer will need to know the code to insert to move the program to the desired character map. This code can be found by looking in the printer manual or by calling the printer manufacturer. 12 - Press F7 until return to the desired Character 13 - Enter the code using the new string just defined, the character, and then the current character map string (i.e., r8[171]pc8). 14 - Make the necessary Kerning changes 15 - Exit PTR saving the changes Two characters that appear to be kernable, are only kernable if they are from the same PS table. Kerning values come from the PS Tables and so with two fonts with different PS values, if they were keened, it would give unpredictable results when trying to kern them. (This information was compiled from page 292 of the WordPerfect 5.1 PTR manual.) This statement is different than that given above. The first information assumes the font the customer is adding the character map is similar in size, but only different in symbol set, i.e., Times Roman 10pt PC-8, and Times Roman 10pt Roman 8. While the information in this paragraph assumes the customer is working with two distinct fonts.

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