Re: new release?

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 9:25 AM Anuj Verma <anujv@iitbhilai.ac.in> wrote:
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> > Can this be accomplished by a public macro? Probably not, because the
> > spread is not a public value, right? We can simply give an explicit
> > formula in the docs.
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> Yes, spread is not a public value. I have already added the pseudo code in
> `freetype.h` near `FT_RENDER_MODE_SDF`. I think it should be good as
> long as we don't change the output format.

We would not need to change the 8-bit "texture" output ever. However,
non-symmetric spread with less on the inside, where there is less room
in glyphs, might come useful. This, of course, changes the threshold
value so that 8-bits are used proportionally rather than equally.