[Devel] Re: CFF problems

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi,

> 
> You said the left side bearing can in fact be negative. 
> That being the case, then it might be a good idea for 
> someone to make a small change to the "FreeType Glyph 
> Conventions" document. It states that the left side 
> bearing "is positive for horizontal layouts, and in most 
> cases negative for vertical ones". Perhaps that "in most 
> cases" should also be applied to horizontal layouts 
> having positive left side bearings.
> 

I meant that in general, fonts can have negative left side bearings.  I wasn't
talking abut in the FreeType contect.  Sorry for the confustion.

> Even with the possibility of a negative left side bearing 
> in mind, I don't doesn't appear to be the intent with CFF 
> fonts like the one I provided. I haven't tried your t2parse 
> fixes yet (will be doing that shortly). Did it clean up the 
> metrics that lead to the negative left side bearing?
> 

No.  I am not sure what is going on there.  I'll be looking into this.

Tom