>When I swopped to using Ovation I found one feature >that just does not work at all well - namely kerning. Kerning was not well done. It is done by "tracking" pairs of characters. Now much later on I added "fixed spaces" to OP, they would be a better way of handling kerning. However I don't recognise the symptoms you describe. They sound like what one might get with enhanced justificaiton enabled or characters jumping to pixel boundaries (more of a Windows phenomena than RISC OS). David Pilling.