Rekern

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To kern again. transitive

    "Illustrator tends to treat a line of text as an object, so changing a word at the end of a line can often result in a great deal of hand-manipulation to rekern the type or move a word onto the next line."

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"Illustrator tends to treat a line of text as an object, so changing a word at the end of a line can often result in a great deal of hand-manipulation to rekern the type or move a word onto the next line."

Etymology

From re- + kern.

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