Re: [ft-devel] [PATCH] CJK Autohinter should not clump stems together when there are too many of them

[suzuki toshiya]

Just I've committed your patch to git head, thanks!

Regards,
mpsuzuki

r6144 wrote:
> 在 2011-04-20三的 19:57 address@hidden
>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:35:29 +0200 (CEST)
>> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> One of my anxiety was that the priority to the black/white evenness
>>>> can reduce the contrast of the complex glyph.  Please find attached
>>>> picture comparing the results by HeiseiMaruGo-W4 at 16pt @ 72dpi. In
>>>> my personal impression, the legibility of the strokes in enclosed
>>>> area (like "日" or "目") is not important, but the legibility of the
>>>> longest stroke should be respected. Please let me know how your
>>>> opinion.
>>> Thanks for reviewing.  Do you have an idea how to increase the
>>> legibility of the longest strokes?  Contrary to the proposed patch I
>>> think that this what you suggest is quite hard a job to achieve since
>>> you not only have to do feature analysis, e.g., mark horizontal stems
>>> which are surrounded by vertical stems like this
>>>
>>>   |-----|
>>>
>>> as `unimportant', but also distort the glyph accordingly so that
>>> `important' stems are aligned to the grid...
>> I think what I requested (the longest stem should not be
>> blurred) is difficult to co-exist with the proposed patch.
>> So, if we find some comments that the rasterized result
>> by 2.2.5 is too blurred and 2.2.4 is better, I will propose
>> to revert the patch and discuss the appropriate condition
>> to enable the feature. Fortunately, the proposed patch is
>> not drastic.
> 
> Yes, the long horizontal stroke at the middle of 量 often gets blurred
> by the patch.  It would be better if we align the longest strokes first
> rather than doing it greedily, but after using this patch for two
> months, I think the current result is good enough for now.  Thank you
> for reviewing the patch.
> 
> r6144
>