Re: [ft-devel] Auto Embolding of Lohit Devanagari

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:12 AM, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 27 February 2012 07:58, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I think there are 2 issues in auto-embolden Lohit Devanagari;
>> > a) disconnection of horizontal strokes (which should be connected with
>> > previous/next glyph)4.8
>>
>> It looks like advance value is incorrectly adjusted or calculated.
>> I was able to reproduce this on Fedora 16 x86_64, 64-bit build of
>> freetype-2.4.8.
>>
>> Pravin, can you check Fedora x86_64 spin?
>
> Still the major problem is broken upper horizontal BAR, in local language we
> call it Shirorekha. It should be continuous as it is in Lohit normal.

In this particular font the glyph width is larger than it advance,
which is unusual.
FT_Outline_Embolden does not adjust glyph metrics. So I wonder how you handle
the advance values or which higher level text layout library does that for you.