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

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> So Alexei, how about you flip the direction for the latin hinter in
> an experiment and show us some rendering results? ;)

This should be easy, BTW: In `src/autofit/afscript.h', simply change

I tried  HINTING_TOP_TO_BOTTOM for Latn. The results are obvious: it changes the position of any middle stem quite dramatically: sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. e's with top diacritics suffering the most as they loose consistency. So yeah, years of tweaking for BOTTOM_TO_TOP show. Perhaps working with "wrong" direction intentionally can help iron out real bugs. Werner, you should check it out. It is kind of striking.

Alexei