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Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint
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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.
- [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/12/28
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2015/12/28
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Jan Alexander Steffens, 2015/12/28
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/12/28
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2015/12/28
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/12/28
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Dave Crossland, 2015/12/28
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint,
Alexei Podtelezhnikov <=
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/12/28
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Nikolaus Waxweiler, 2015/12/29
- Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/12/29
Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint, Sascha Brawer, 2015/12/28