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Greek kerning pairs
Posted by scannerlicker in
22 Nov 2009 — 3:03pm
22 Nov 2009 — 3:03pm
Hello everybody!
Does anyone knows where can I find a list of kerning pairs for greek?
I'm using Leslie Cabarga's Kern King (http://www.logofontandlettering.com/kernking.html) for latin, and I'm wondering if there is some similar thing for Greek.
Thank you in advance, cheers!
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23 Nov 2009 — 7:15am
http://www.tiro.com/John/GreekNTKerning.zip
This is a list of Greek words (minus breathing and accent marks) from the Greek New Testament. The .txt files use production glyph naming for use in FontLab metrics window. The .doc files contain the words Unicode-encoded.
These files are good for kerning letter-to-letter. Combinations of letters plus marks also need to be kerned, particularly when adjacent to some caps and ascending letters.
23 Nov 2009 — 7:17am
Thanks, John!
ChrisL
23 Nov 2009 — 9:54am
Very nice of you John - thanks.
hhp
25 Nov 2009 — 6:15pm
John, thank you. Deeply.
15 Dec 2011 — 5:46am
Hi there,
I am about to add punctuation and quotations to John's list.
Does anybody know what is the greek quotations usage?
I don't think that doing all the possibilities in the current string make sense:
“/alpha ” ‘/alpha ’ '/alpha ' "/alpha " „/alpha ” ‚/alpha ’ „/alpha “ ‚/alpha ‘ ›/alpha ‹ ‹/alpha › «/alpha » ’/alpha
Thanks in advance.
15 Dec 2011 — 5:57am
OK, I've found in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English_usage_of_quotation_marks )
that in greek it is used «/alpha » (primary) “/alpha ” (secondary). No indication for the third level. Any clue?
And what about the apostrophes?