On 3/30/06, Richard Hughes <cyreve@...155...> wrote:
Pango requires you to call pango_fc_font_kern_glyphs() to do the kerning, presumably so that applications can implement the 'only kern above x pt' feature. It's not difficult, we just don't do it. Add a feature request.
The only thing I can think that might be happening is that your distro has a specially patched version of Pango which does the kerning without being asked. Slightly unusual, but not inconceivable.
That's very unlikely. I compiled Pango myself from stock sources.
And kerning has _always_ worked for me, ever since Fred switched us to using Pango in version 0.39. I even wrote about it in the release notes:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes039
So, something very strange is happening. If you say that to enable kerning for everyone is a matter of a single call, then please add this call :) Ideally it should be conditional on the 'kerning' CSS property, but lacking that, I think "always on" is better than "always off".
Or, as another poster in this thread suggests, this may be the case of kerning being broken in a too new version of Pango (mine is 1.10.1).
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