Re: [ft-devel] a hidden gem: the autohint warper code

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> BTW, that's what sort of worried me about the recent hacks to the
>> CJK autohinter:
>>
>> It seemed to work OK in the case posted, because the major
>> "skeleton" strokes of the characters were grid-aligned, and the
>> non-aligned (and thus less visible) strokes seemed well-chosen.
>>
>> But is that somehow guaranteed...?  It seems like the result not
>> aligning important strokes when minor strokes _were_ aligned would
>> result in _less_ readable results than simply grid-aligning
>> everything (as I guess happens now)...
>
> It seems the hack assume stem are separated by at least 1 pixel.

Yep.  Instead of incorrectly collapsing two stems into one (due to
lack of vertical space), you get something greyish.


    Werner