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Add WARN level check for KERN table
Observed behaviour
Ideally all our TTFs should have KERN tables, so that they typeset with kerning in older systems that don't use GPOS kerning - sadly this is still all too common.
MSFV already has a check for this, but I want something more verbose and explanatory for humans than that check result.
Before shipping that check, we should make a script that generates KERN tables from GPOS kerning in order to give people a way to solve this.
http://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/old-style-kern-table-export/3322/7 explains how to get a kern table in glyphsapp and thus what an upstream GA check is for this. However, it needs some additional filtering work in the build script.