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Libreoffice what the fuck is this kerning?
I didn't type "th at", that's "that"

@foone Can I ask what font, OS, and LibreOffice version this is? I did a lot of research on this in the past and contributed to bug reports at the Document Foundation about the issue.

This looks like a failure to use subpixel positioning on the glyphs, so the position of the 'a' glyph is rounded to the nearest glyph and looks very weird. LibreOffice switched to using subpixel positioning for all rendering with version 7.4, but I could imagine this happening with weird font / hinting settings.

@fontenot Sure!
It's Liberation Serif, Windows 10, and LibreOffice 6.3.3.2. (I haven't updated it in a while so that's probably way out of date)

Liliane Fontenot

@foone Oh cool, thanks! Yes I think if you try out 7.4 you'll find the problem goes away. It looks like just the rounded glyph position issue, I have a whole blog post about it: adamfontenot.com/post/libreoff

I did guess it was Windows based on the weird (IMO) hinting, but I think that's unrelated here.

adamfontenot.comLibreOffice 7.4 has a new approach to text rendering - Adam Fontenot