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


From: Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 22:36:52 -0500

>>> 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)

You learned to write on top of the line. Me too. This is a totally arbitrary 
tradition. We could have learn to write below the line. Actually, at the first 
grade I wrote between two lines and nobody said which one was more important. 
Just trying to be provocative.


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