Re: [ft-devel] Auto Embolding of Lohit Devanagari

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> With patch it is better now, see the attached image.
>
> You must not use ftview to test whether glyphs are correctly joined!
> This programs inserts an additional pixel horizontally between each
> glyph.  For simple stuff, use ftstring.  For complex shaping, you need
> a demo program from, say, Pango.

I hope this comment does not reflect on my patch that is intended to
remove excessive space between emboldened glyphs in ftview.

Pravin's original report did use a higher level library which must
have taken a hint from ftview. Where else?