1. A method of horizontally placing a subsequent glyph to a base glyph for rendering to a target device, the method comprising: placing the base glyph, wherein the base glyph has a bounding box; vertically placing the subsequent glyph, wherein the subsequent glyph has a bounding box and wherein the subsequent glyph is not on the same baseline as the base character; determining whether either glyph has a relevant cut-in value; and if either glyph has a relevant cut-in value, applying the cut-in value to horizontally adjust positioning of the next adjacent glyph.