Re: kerns of digits

["Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>]

Pierre A. MacKay <mackay@cs.washington.edu> asks on
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:56:09 -0600 (MDT):

>> Does anyone else recall that Tom Rokicki spotted that 
>> kern ages ago.  His encoding file includes specific
>> instructions for removing all kerning between digits.

Thanks for the tip, Pierre.  In my dvips-5-580/reencode/DC.enc
file, dated 21-Aug-1992, I found this:

%   We blow away kerns to and from spaces (TeX doesn't have a
%   space) and also remove any kerns from the numbers (although
%   the only kern pair that mentions a number in Times-Roman.afm
%   is one one.)

Evidence earlier today shows that the comment is not correct
about which fonts do this, but Tom certainly had the right idea
7 years ago!

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