Issue 19380

Summary:	Incorrect kerning between italics and normal texts
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	mhousley <mhousley>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	ulf.stroehler
Status:	CLOSED WONT_FIX	QA Contact:	issues@sw <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P5 (lowest)	CC:	issues, pavel, tamblyne
Version:	OOo 1.1 RC4	Keywords:	oooqa
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description mhousley 2003-09-10 10:13:31 UTC

When using the times new roman font in the OpenOffice writer, I find that 
kearning between italics and normal characters.  For instance, if an italics 
capital A is placed after a normal character with a space between the two, the 
space is not visible.  Or, if a normal character is placed after an italics 
lowercase f with a space, the space is not visible, and if there is no space 
between the characters, they sometimes overlap.

Comment 1 utomo99 2003-09-17 08:46:22 UTC

Please Attach the documents which make this problem, so we can test
it.  (Without the documents, we cannot confirm the problem easily)
Don't forget to cut other part of the documents, so the file size is
small, but we still able to see the problem.

Comment 2 tamblyne 2003-10-14 04:54:19 UTC

Confirmed WinXPPro/OOo 1.1.  

With a test sentence of "This is A test of kerning with italics", in
Times New Roman set to 18 -- there was still a visible space between
"is" and the capital "A" (which was italicized), and even in removing
the space the characters didn't seem to overlap.  

However, italicizing the "of", and removing the space between that
word and "kerning", the top of the italicized "f" overlaps the "k" in
kerning.  

Tam

Comment 3 h.ilter 2003-10-16 13:01:53 UTC

Reassigned to US

Comment 4 pavel 2004-03-26 22:28:32 UTC

Looks like TeX's italic correction needed ;-)

Comment 5 ulf.stroehler 2004-07-20 17:57:59 UTC

Pavel is right. Indeed I would also appreciate a type setting quality as
provided by TeX...
I see the point although I can't really reproduce it; at least not the mentioned
overlapping.
We still have bigger issues to solve regarding horizontal character positioning;
e.g. refer to issue 22540. Hence this is something that will be address
somewhere in the far future...

Comment 6 ulf.stroehler 2004-07-20 18:01:27 UTC

@submitter: as we probably can not solve this issue for the next 2 years a more
honest approach would be to close this issue as 'will not fix'. Would that be
acceptable?

Comment 7 mhousley 2004-07-20 19:36:49 UTC

Sounds good.

Comment 8 ulf.stroehler 2004-07-21 11:19:53 UTC

@submitter: thanks for your comprehension.
Reopening for changing state to "WONT FIX".

Comment 9 ulf.stroehler 2004-07-21 11:24:32 UTC

As discussed "WONTFIX" due to lack of resources.

Comment 10 ulf.stroehler 2004-07-21 11:25:21 UTC

Closing "WONTFIX" issue.