Re: [ft-devel] How does one enable the new slight auto-hinting mode?

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.04.30 at 07:22 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > Yes, that is true. Here is the output of loading the ilovetypography
> > page with: [...]
> 
> Removing my `~/.mozilla' directory, applying this patch and running
> Mozilla Firefox 52.0.1 with
> 
>   LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libfreetype.so.6.13.0 \
>   /path/to/firefox-bin \
>   http://ilovetypography.com/2016/04/18/the-first-roman-fonts/
> 
> I get similar output:
> 
> size_internal->autohint_metrics=37749 size->metrics=50332
> 
> However, the web page looks perfectly fine...

Yes the page looks fine with the patch applied for me, too.
However it doesn't once I remove the if (1) and restore it to the
original condition, because then the cases where 
size_internal->autohint_metrics.x_scale > 0 no longer get corrected.

-- 
Markus