Re: [ft-devel] Arial/Times ldot hinting

[Nigel Tao]

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I note that on Arial_Bold.ttf glyph #274 "ldot", C Freetype's hinted
>> output looks off to me.  [...]
>>
>> Times New Roman glyph #274 "ldot" at 13 ppem is similarly off by -3,
>> [...]
>
> Please retry with the current git.  Three days ago I've committed the
> following:
>
>   [truetype] Fix phantom point handling.
>
>     This is a further improvement to the changes from 2013-11-06.
>
>     * src/truetype/ttgload.c (TT_Hint_Glyph): Horizontal phantom points
>     are rounded horizontally, vertical ones are rounded vertically.
>     (TT_LOADER_SET_PP): The horizontal position of vertical phantom
>     points in pre-ClearType mode is zero, as shown in the OpenType
>     specification.
>
> Indeed, it seems that ftgrid now handles your examples just fine.

I've tried current git and 2.5.2, and unless I screwed up, ftgrid
shows no difference (apart from some new debugging XXX and ptsize
printf calls): the "l"s in the "ldot"s are still off-grid.