RE: [ft-devel] [patch] bugs in emboldening

[Turner, David]

> Hi,
> 
> This patch fixes some bugs in emboldening.
> 
> The `strength' in FT_Outline_Embolden is halved so that, for 
> example, a
> vertical bar of width W will be, after emboldening, of width "W +
> strength".  And now it works as the documentation says.
> 

Now that the code is part of a public release, it'd be better to
document the current behaviour rather than change it. Otherwise,
you're going to surprise some people when the new release comes
out.

Werner, I did warn you about putting some "fresh" code in this
release ! Fortunately, this isn't so bad.

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)