livetype kerning shortcut

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

In most Mac text programs just put the cursor between letters, hold down the “option” key and tap the left and right arrow keys.

This also works if you highlight all of (or any part of) your text “at once”.

[Tom Wolsky]

Unfortunately there is no kerning function in LiveType. It’s due to the way the text is constructed making glyphs into separate objects.

[Rick Dolishny]

[Matte] “In most Mac text programs just put the cursor between letters, hold down the “option” key and tap the left and right arrow keys.”

That doesn’t work in Livetype and not in Textedit. Am I doing something wrong?

I thought I saw someone nudging the kerning with some sort of keystroke perhaps it was the Boris program…

– R

[Rick Dolishny]

[Tom Wolsky] “Unfortunately there is no kerning function in LiveType. It’s due to the way the text is constructed making glyphs into separate objects.”

OK, Livetype calls it Tracking and it’s definitely there. I can highlight a letter and adjust the kerning/tracking post-letter with my mouse. Just looking for a keyboard shortcut equiv.

Perhaps I’m wrong with my semantics: I want to manually tweak the spacing between letters like A and W, for example.

– R

[Tom Wolsky]

Tracking is the spacing between letters on a line. LT can do that. Kerning is the spacing between individual letter pairs, LT cannot do that. The only way to do is it to select the glyphs and manually nudge them left and right as needed. Nudging one glyph will not move the others however, as a proper kerning function normally does. Option-left and right arrows works in Calligraphy to adjust kerning.