Font rendering oddities: is this already known?

[Stefan Knorr (Astron)]

Hi Olivier, all,

I believe what you see are the effects of "pair kerning." (Kerning
means to move glyphs closer together/wider apart to make them _seem_
equally far apart as every other letter in that line. The traditional
example is "VA," which without kerning would look more like "V A".)

I any case, you can turn that off like so:
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/office_guides/openoffice_writer_user_guide/openoffice_guide_Kerning_text.html

Why LibreOffice does pair kerning instead of kerning whole lines or at
least words, I have no idea.

Hope that helps,
Astron.