Comment 8 for bug 773207

hi christopher

> notice the kerning is as the attached Screenshot.png. I was able to
> produce this kerning by highlighting the text -> secondary click the
> highlighted text -> primary click Character... -> Position tab -> under
> Spacing click the drop-down box and choose Condensed -> in the combo box
> to the right of Condensed choose 5.0pt -> click OK

** I not spoke about spacing ajustement or effects between glyphs, you can do,
but basic kerning inserted in font. Use false condensed (or expanted) staying a
text style effect, having nothing to do with kerning. I will not write
a text like
in your screenshot using nimbus :-)
You haven't to do this with nimbus, because nimbus use a standard
kerning table.
Opentype technology now used (for OTF and TTF) stores all features in GSUB and
GPOS table. For the same reasons, it's not possible at this time to
accede to features
like ligatures, alternate, sub etc. excepted by using insert character
fonctions.
The problem is that Libreoffice like Ooo seems not read the GPOS table
kerning information
when standard kerning table doesn't exist specially with fonts
respecting opentype
specifications, I think.

Best to you