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Re: "Kerning?"

** Reply to note from "..."  Sat, 15 Feb 1997 17:27:32 -0500 (EST)
 
> The term for what you dudes are trying to do with the wrong tools is
> letterspacing, not kerning. 				--a

Kerning is actually the reduction of space between letters (I believe it arose
from the problem that italics tend to create too much space; properly, the
upper portion of an italic character should overhang the bottom of the next
character, and to get that effect with cold type, you needed to pare down the
right "corner" of the shank).

Nonetheless, the common Xy thread is the PI command.

Obviously, you understand and like PostScript.
Can I get any old H-P PCL laser printer to print with a PostScript
"interpreter"? Since my printer is not natively a PS printer, what XyWrite
printer file do I use? I'd like to try this out... What about speed? Will I
get the high speed (8-16 ppm) of a PCL printer? PCL isn't too bad, you know, if
all you're doing is typing out monospaced texts... Is it automatic? Press a
button in XyWrite and finished -- or do I need to open the interpreter and do
some additional procedure?

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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