Re: Autohinter project for GSoC

[Brad Neimann]

Hi Werner,

> As far as I can see it is hard to split the project for adding a
> capability database to the auto-hinter …

Just speculating here… might it be possible to reduce the workload by 
only focussing on a few characters at first? From what I can see the 
single worst Latin-script diacritics with regards to hinting seem to be 
over- and underdots (e.g. ⟨ijḷṃṛ⟩), diaereses, rings, tildes and breves 
(e.g. ⟨ăĕĭŏŭ⟩, cf. caron ⟨ǎěǐǒǔ⟩), so addressing just those might 
provide a disproportionally high benefit.

> However, it is possible to stretch the time frame up to
> 22 weeks – maybe this helps?

That helps, but unfortunately I don’t think it would help enough — that 
would make 16 hours per week, which is more time than I’d have available.

Regards,
Brad