Kerning Problems

DocumentID: 651430
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:07 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The user wants to use kerning, but the KERN.TST that ships with WordPerfect shows little difference between when kerning is off and on. Also, when kerning is on, the right margin is not adjusted to account for the space taken in the kern. Solutions: The kerning works; it's just that the kerning value is small enough that it is hard to notice unless you do a lot of characters. For example type AVAVAVAVAVA on one line, turn kerning on and type AVAVAVAVAVA again, and you will notice that the lines end differently. The customer also reported that the hyphenation is not being taken into account if the characters are kerned. The formatter does not take kerning into account at all (and thus hyphenation detects no difference in the positioning of the characters). This has always been the case. The reason for this is that it would slow down formatting of normal ASCII characters quite a bit, which Development hesitates to do; even if kerning were off, it would slow down formatting. The hyphenation problem will not be corrected.

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