CTAN submission -- kerntest v1.32

[Rainer Schöpf]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded kerntest-v1_32.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace all
 > files in ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/kerntest/ by
 > its contents. License stays LPPL.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/kerntest
 

 > >From the README:
 >
 > Print tables and generate mtx files that help to adjust kernings
 > 
 > This class makes it easy to generate tables that show many different
 > kerning pairs of an arbitrary font, usable by LaTeX.
 > It shows the kerning values that are used by the the font by default.
 > 
 > In addition, this class enables the user to alternate the kernings
 > and to observe the results.
 > Kerning pairs can be defined for groups of similar glyphs at once.
 > Automatically, an mtx file is generated that can be loaded by
 > fontinst to introduce the user-made kernings into the virtual font
 > for LaTeX.
 > 
 > 
 > >From the ChangeLog:
 > 
 > v1.32 2004/04/13  Harald Harders (h.harders at tu-bs.de)
 >         - Direct access on glyph names instead of parsing \getpsname.
 >         - Speed up \writemtxkern, \defglyphclass, \ifglyphinclass, and
 >           \@ifglyphinclass (in total, app. factor 20).
 >         - Allow to set relative kerning widths in glyph classes.
 >         - Do not scale Helvetica by default because this breaks
 >           testing Helvetica.
 > 
 > v1.31 2004/04/13  Harald Harders (h.harders at tu-bs.de)
 >         - Use \setleftkerning and \setrightkerning instead of writing
 >           every kerning pair.
 > 
 > v1.30 2004/04/12  Harald Harders (h.harders at tu-bs.de)
 >         - Add encodings OT1, T2A, T2B, and LY1.
 >         - Template for OT1 encoding.
 >         - Parameter-dependent encodings (for example with or without
 >           ligatures).
 >         - New option designsize for giving the design size of the font
 >           explicitely.
 > 
 > v1.11 2004/04/06  Harald Harders (h.harders at tu-bs.de)
 >         - Allow to give glyphs by number (decimal, hex, octal) or by
 >           PostScript name.
 >         - Write glyph name to table.
 >         - Find and complain inconsistent kerning data.
 >         - Introduce glyph classes to set the kerning for similar glyph
 >           shapes by once.
 >         - Reduce left margin.
 > 
 > Yours
 > Harald
 > 
 > 

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  Rainer Schöpf