Joachim Schrod wrote -- > Yes, and Kaeufer has even better examples and some rules. The problem: > UC kerning (``spationieren'') is not as brute force as letterspacing > (``sperren''), it is expected to take _the_whole_surrounding_ into > accout. I.e., the amount of kerning depends also on the typeset > material that is above or below the text to be kerned, its size, its > distance, etc. > > That's one of the things in typography where you talk with designers > and/or typesetters, and they tell you: You just have to see it. The > formalization of that `seeing' is an open research problem, as far as > I know. It is, along with many other aspects of the compositor's craft. chris