[texhax] Awful looking output

[Michael Barr]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

> On 13 October 2009 Michael Barr wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, hh wrote:
> >
> > > Look the attachment.
> > >
> > > Kerning is working.
> > >
> > > $\mathit{HW} = \mathit{WH}$
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > $.. \mathit{coefficient}.. $
> > > hh
> >
> > All this is true, but the point was that you should not put math formulas
> > in \mathit (which is for italic text) or, at any rate, you should not have
> > to do so.  It is arguable that it was the WH that was wrong since there
> > was not enough space and it looked like text, not math mode.  Whatever,
> > TeX is supposed to work out the spacing automatically and doesn't.
>
> No.  Kerning tables have nothing to do with TeX at all.  They are font
> specific.  TeX uses whatever is in the .tfm files, regardless where
> they come from.
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
>
Maybe it has nothing to do with TeX, but these cmit fonts were created by 
Knuth using Metafont and are inextricably linked to TeX.  It is 
disingenuous to say that they have nothing to do with TeX.

Michael