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Font::TTF::Kern(3)    User Contributed Perl Documentation   Font::TTF::Kern(3)

NAME
       Font::TTF::Kern - Kerning tables

DESCRIPTION
       Kerning tables are held as an ordered collection of subtables each giv‐
       ing incremental information regarding the kerning of various pairs of
       glyphs.

       The basic structure of the kerning data structure is:

	   $kern = $f->{'kern'}{'tables'}[$tnum]{'kerns'}{$leftnum}{$rightnum};

       Due to the possible complexity of some kerning tables the above infor‐
       mation is insufficient. Reference also needs to be made to the type of
       the table and the coverage field.

INSTANCE VARIABLES
       The instance variables for a kerning table are relatively straightfor‐
       ward.

       Version
	   Version number of the kerning table

       Num Number of subtables in the kerning table

       tables
	   Array of subtables in the kerning table

	       Each subtable has a number of instance variables.

	   kern
	       A two level hash array containing kerning values. The indexing
	       is left value and then right value. In the case of type 2
	       tables, the indexing is via left class and right class. It may
	       seem using hashes is strange, but most tables are not type 2
	       and this method saves empty array values.

	   type
	       Stores the table type. Only type 0 and type 2 tables are speci‐
	       fied for TrueType so far.

	   coverage
	       A bit field of coverage information regarding the kerning
	       value. See the TrueType specification for details.

	   Version
	       Contains the version number of the table.

	   Num Number of kerning pairs in this type 0 table.

	   left
	       An array indexed by glyph - left_first which returns a class
	       number for the glyph in type 2 tables.

	   right
	       An array indexed by glyph - right_first which returns a class
	       number for the glyph in type 2 tables.

	   left_first
	       the glyph number of the first element in the left array for
	       type 2 tables.

	   right_first
	       the glyph number of the first element in the right array for
	       type 2 tables.

	   num_left
	       Number of left classes

	   num_right
	       Number of right classes

METHODS
       $t->read

       Reads the whole kerning table into structures

       $t->out($fh)

       Outputs the kerning tables to the given file

       $t->XML_element($context, $depth, $key, $value)

       Handles outputting the kern hash into XML a little more tidily

BUGS
       ·   Only supports kerning table types 0 & 2.

       ·   No real support functions to do anything with the kerning tables
	   yet.

AUTHOR
       Martin Hosken Martin_Hosken@sil.org. See Font::TTF::Font for copyright
       and licensing.

perl v5.8.8			  2005-10-06		    Font::TTF::Kern(3)
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