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tkfirst |
Longname: | t k erning first |  |
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| See also: | <?tk> tkdis tklgp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Summary |
Activates kerning either before a ligature is applied to a character, or after it has been applied. With earlier versions of Arbortext APP, text to which both kerning and ligature tables apply, had the ligature applied first and then the kerning, the letter being kerned being the 'replacement' letter. In some circumstances, particularly when setting foreign languages, this was not necessarily the best order, it being better to kern using the values for the original letter in the text stream. |
Example extract |
An example of when to apply a kerning table before a letter is replaced is in the case of the word 'difficult', where the letters 'f f i' are converted to the single character 'ffi' in some fonts. The correct kern for 'i/ffi' is, however, the same as the kern between an 'i/f', and so Arbortext APP should apply this kern first, and then change the 'f f i' into an 'ffi'. The diagram below shows how 'i/f' kern, and how changing the setting of tkfirst alters the text appearance. (The most noticeable difference is that with tkfirst 1 the 'i/c' kern has been disabled.)
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Syntax
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kern before lig:o?
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| Ø | Displays the Kerning - before ligs. dialogue box. |
kern before lig:o |
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Document created on 08-Feb-2003 (revision 1)