Re: [ft-devel] Announcing FreeType 2.6.2

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> Comments on Phoronix indicate the obvious: people do not read beyond
> the default LCD filter change, which is related, but not critical.
> You've done a good job in docs describing it in
> http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-lcd_filtering.html
> anyway. I suggest removing this filtering part altogether and putting
> a reference to the docs at the *end* of the article. I suppose the
> article will become a separate page eventually dealing with blending
> on freetype.org.

Heh, well, probably because that's what the news article mentioned 
explicitly ;) I'm not sure about removing that part of the article... It 
is something everybody will notice immediately somehow, after all... And 
yes, it should get its' own article in the "Documentation" section.

> We have to rework freetype.org to make it abundantly clear that
> FreeType produces coverage maps to be used as alpha channel rather
> than final glyph images. The source of this misunderstanding is that
> freetype.org does a bad job pointing this out. Shockingly, just one
> freetype.org page mentions alpha:

Count me in :) So how about moving freetype.org from bare HTML files to 
some fancy static site generator first and then reworking the content? :B