Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Alexei A Podtelezhnikov, PhD

On May 18, 2017, at 07:08, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
Hinting regardless of shift should produce
>> consistent images of the same width with the edge stems covering
>> exactly one pixel.
> 
> Define `consistent'.  For example, I could live with, say, four
> different versions of glyph `a', dependent on the (fractional) start
> position.

Four hinted versions? May I ask how? Take letter 'l'. There is just one way to 
cover a vertical run of pixels. You can have as many light versions as you 
want. But strong version is unique.