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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/dejavu/dejavu.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/dejavu/dejavu.tex index af8304a539d..ad9599e28d2 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/dejavu/dejavu.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/dejavu/dejavu.tex @@ -177,17 +177,20 @@ is also the non-ideal position of accents in letters like Ccaron and ccaron. \section{The LGR encoding for Greek} -I hope, that all the ligatures work and also the sigma and final sigma is -used correctly. However, when I look at the automatically generated accented -capital letters, they do not look very good to me. In my opinion, the accents -should be (sometimes much) closer to the letter. Look at the following letters -and you will see what I am talking about: \textgreek{>`A <'O <O >'E >E}. - -Therefore I think that I should add some kerning pairs between the accents and -the capital letters. I have already an idea how I could do part of this work -automatically. The result would be that the automatically composed letters -would look the same as the precomposed letters that are in the fonts. However, -it is hard to say how much time it will take. +The capital Greek accented letters are composed from the accent and the +capital letter. There are (currently) no kerning pairs between these accents +and capital letters in the fonts. Therefore, I added additional kerning pairs +for these combinations and I think that the result is much better: +\textgreek{>`A <'O <O >'E >E}. + +The combination accent and capital letter doesn't still give the same result +as the precomposed letter. The combination has bigger left side bearing than +the precomposed letter. I may do something with it later, but the most visible +problem for me was the position of accents. + +The extra kerning pairs are not included in the fonts, but were used to +generate the tfm files and I put them to the package for the case you want +to look at them. \section{Using the package} |