Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter: stem darkening, first rough prototype

[Dave Arnold]

On 8/28/2015 7:10 AM, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
> > You want a *global* stem width for all scripts within a font?  I'm not
> > sure whether this is a good idea.
>
> Uh, I thought that's how it works for Postscript and OpenType/CFF fonts? I'm 
> only aware of the (face-)global dict with a face-wide stdVW.
>
> If not, I will need to rethink my approach ;)
StdHW and StdVW are in the private DICT. There is one private DICT per font for 
most western fonts, but there are multiple private DICTs (subfonts) and 
therefore multiple Std?W values per font for CID fonts. CID fonts are most 
commonly used for far east languages (CJK).