I'm looking for a cyrillic ttf/otf font with kerning support. Here's a sample XeLaTeX document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec} % enagles loading of OpenType fonts
\usepackage{polyglossia} % support for languages
% fonts:
\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text} % without this XeLaTeX won't turn "--" into dashes
% Russian/English document:
\usepackage{xecyr}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{NotoSans}
\setmainlanguage{russian} % \setdefaultlanguage{russian} is obsolete and not needed
\setotherlanguage[variant=american]{english}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[block]{\color{Blue}\Large\bfseries}{}{1em}{}
\begin{document}
\section{Sans-serif}
\setmainfont{NotoSans}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{NotoSans}
\textbf{NotoSans}:\\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\setmainfont{Linux Biolinum O}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{Linux Biolinum O}
\textbf{Linux Biolinum O}: \\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\setmainfont{DejaVu Sans}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{DejaVu Sans}
\textbf{DejaVu Sans}: \\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\setmainfont{Arial}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{Arial}
\textbf{Arial}: \\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\setmainfont{PT Sans}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{PT Sans}
\textbf{PT Sans}: \\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\setmainfont{Trebuchet MS}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{Trebuchet MS}
\textbf{Trebouchet MS}: \\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\setmainfont{FreeSans}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{FreeSans}
\textbf{FreeSans}: \\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\section{Serif}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{Linux Libertine O}
\textbf{Linux Libertine O}: \\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\setmainfont{DejaVu Serif}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{DejaVu Serif}
\textbf{DejaVu Serif}: \\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\setmainfont{Minion Pro}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{Minion Pro}
\textbf{Minion Pro}: \\
\underline{Ta}ble? \\
\underline{Та}блица?
\medskip
\end{document}
And the result is:
So it looks like only Trebouchet MS
support kerning in Russian. How could it be? Do I do something wrong?
Best Answer
Here is my test:
You see that Arial and PT Sans kern, among the sans serif fonts. For the serif ones, a kern is applied with Minion Pro.
A further test (not shown) with Trebuchet MS tells that this font doesn't kern that pair. One should test other character pairs in order to have more significant results.