Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I find the top-to-bottom thing curious. Do you have an explanation
>> why it works better for these scripts?
>
> I now think that bottom-to-top for Latin is questionable: L and J
> seem to be the only letters with important features at the
> bottom. Many more letters are heavy at the top.

I disagree.  Hinting as done by the auto-hinter should start at the
zone that is most common – and that is definitely the normal baseline
for Latin (and Cyrillic).


     Werner