[Devel] ClearType-like results

[Yaroslav Rastrigin]

Hi !

My question is simple - what should I do to achieve ClearType-like results in 
subpixel-antialiased text rendering ? Is there any way do do aforementioned 
rendering "MS style ?". After comparision of freetype and cleartype outputs, 
main difference is: cleartype engine never "blends" main character shape, and 
only adds brown/blue dots _around_ it. freetype's method, OTOH,
(or, at least, as I'm understanding it ) modifies even pixels that would be 
black in non-anti-aliased mode. Resulting freetype output looks 
"lighter", less brightness- and color-consistent and leads to ugly bugs 
including missing "Z" diagonal in Times New Roman Italic, substantially 
lighter right part of "k" in Tahoma and some other not-so-pleasant effects.
I've browsed through ftgrays.c (as I could understand, this is the 
antialiasing engine of freetype) but haven't found any compile- or runtime 
defines/settings to tune smoother's behavior.

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