[OS X TeX] A heretic thought

[Ross Moore]

Hi George,

On 11/08/2014, at 4:02, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:

> But there is a price to pay...
> 
> The book is typeset in Times, and it seems that the Times kerning tables
> do not extend to lower case, upper case pairs.
> 
> So in LaTeX, you have to kern aT and eX manually.
> 
> Then you italicize it, and it is all wrong.

Why italicize it?
It is a logo, and should be used just like a graphic, always in the same font and style.
By all means change the size to match your chosen font height, but no more.

To do it differently is making extra work for yourself, with no guarantee of getting a pleasing or  acceptable result.

> So you have to kern aT and eX manually again for italics!
> 
> And then there is bold...

There should be no change, neither for italics nor bold, IMHO.


> 
> Are there specialized kern tables for Times?
> 
> GG
> 
> 
> On Aug 5, 2014, at 1:13 PM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> I redid the macros, typeset the book. It looks so neat!
>> 
>> GG


Hope this helps,

   Ross

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