[comp.ai.neural-nets] Fonts, kerning and neural nets

pkr@media01.UUCP (Peter Kriens) (03/13/91)

I am very new to neural nets, but what I have read about it, it could be
very helpfull with a problem I have got. I am working on a project
where we have to find the optimal optical spacing between character pairs.
For example, the adjacent V/A pair should be a little bit compacted,
called kerning. Per font there are about a 1000 pairs which need kerning
and there are a few thousand fonts.

For many fonts, there are kerning tables that could be used as learning
input's. My problems:

	a:Is this indeed a problem that could be handled by neural nets
	b: I really don't know where to start, any pointers?
	c: Is there some public domain program which I can use (C?)

Thanks for the time.

Peter Kriens
pkr@media01