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ynfsi hi guys,
i'm currently working as an intern at FSI and ran into a glitch that most of us must be familiar with.
i think it's a great new feature that the metrics window supports multiple lines of text, and that class-based kerning is now being applied in the metrics window in kerning view.
however, the new line breaks also add problems that haven't been there.
i was visually checking the integrity of kerning pairs with a prepared text à la "O-P-Q-R-S-T". when the line breaks into a new line, as should be with normal "human readable" text, no signs get repeated in the next line. but that way i'll miss one kerning pair, in my particular case the T often happened to be at the end of the line, which is important to be kerned with punctuation/dashes.
it is impossible to prepare kerning texts in a way that cope with these line breaks by adding
and a hyphen to the next line. if you change the text viewing sizes or work on a wider font, things mess up again.
please add a feature that adds the last character of the previous line to the beginning of the next one. make it an on/off-button next to the RTL-button or so.
or: add the coloured lines that indicate kerning below the characters after the last and before the first character in a line, if a kerning pair is split across two lines.
that would decrease erros and work in kerning. thanks a lot and keep on doing what you're doing with your great software.
yanone
