[Scribus] Kerning pair and Cwidth()

[Franz Schmid]

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> Hi All,
> 
> There is a very impressive progress in the scribus font handling subsystem 
> in last time. But one important moment is lost yet. It is the pair kerning.
> With freetype2 library, it is possible use kerning pair info with 
>  
>   /* <Function>                                                            */
>   /*    FT_Get_Kerning                                                     */
>   /* <Description>                                                         */
>   /*    Returns the kerning vector between two glyphs of a same face.      */
>   /* <Input>                                                               */
>   /*    face        :: A handle to a source face object.                   */
>   /*    left_glyph  :: The index of the left glyph in the kern pair.       */
>   /*    right_glyph :: The index of the right glyph in the kern pair.      */
>   /*    kern_mode   :: See @FT_Kerning_Mode for more information.          */
>   /*                   Determines the scale/dimension of the returned      */
>   /*                   kerning vector.                                     */
>   /* <Output>                                                              */
>   /*    akerning    :: The kerning vector.  This is in font units for      */
>   /*                   scalable formats, and in pixels for fixed-sizes     */
>   /*                   formats.                                            */
> 
> 
> I am not programmer really and do not see scribus sourses in detail...
> but I see that modification Cwidth() function in utils.cpp for kerning to
> two char arguments can be good step now.
> 
> --
> Alexey Petrov
Thanks for pointing out this feature of freetype, I really overlooked it.
But now it's in. And works fine.

Best Regards,
Franz Schmid