Re: [ft-devel] [ft] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Sometimes, "З" and "Э" (and corresponding small letters) may have
> descenders, for example, in the "Elizabeth" typeface.

URL, please.

> Other letters can be added to the above lists ("ГИМНТ")

Well, yes, but the list should be representative, not exhaustive.

> Also, you may want to add two blue zones for descenders, based on
> "ЦЩ" and "цщ" (in this case do not forget to check for possible blue
> zone overlapping).  These descenders are actively used in extended
> Cyrillic.

I think that it is not necessary to have blue zones for them since it
is sufficient that they stick out from the baseline.  And you are
right that too near blue zones can be difficult, given that the
auto-hinter always applies blue zones globally, this is, it doesn't
group glyphs to use only a smaller set of blue zones.

Even in the unlikely case that one of the descenders is longer than
the other, the visible difference is minor, since there is no longer
horizontal line which could displease the eye.


    Werner