Re: [ft-devel] [PATCH] CJK Autohinter should not clump stems together when there are too many of them

[Werner LEMBERG]

> One of my anxiety was that the priority to the black/white evenness
> can reduce the contrast of the complex glyph.  Please find attached
> picture comparing the results by HeiseiMaruGo-W4 at 16pt @ 72dpi. In
> my personal impression, the legibility of the strokes in enclosed
> area (like "日" or "目") is not important, but the legibility of the
> longest stroke should be respected. Please let me know how your
> opinion.

Thanks for reviewing.  Do you have an idea how to increase the
legibility of the longest strokes?  Contrary to the proposed patch I
think that this what you suggest is quite hard a job to achieve since
you not only have to do feature analysis, e.g., mark horizontal stems
which are surrounded by vertical stems like this

   |-----|

as `unimportant', but also distort the glyph accordingly so that
`important' stems are aligned to the grid...

Please commit to the git repository if you think that your reviewed
patch is OK now.


    Werner