Re: [ft-devel] Bengali support in FreeType ttfautohint

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I disagree.  Hinting as done by the auto-hinter should start at the
>> zone that is most common – and that is definitely the normal
>> baseline for Latin (and Cyrillic)
> 
> You learned to write on top of the line.  Me too.  This is a totally
> arbitrary tradition.  We could have learn to write below the line.
> Actually, at the first grade I wrote between two lines and nobody
> said which one was more important.  Just trying to be provocative.

:) Well, if you count the `hits' where Latin or Cyrillic glyphs fit a
blue zone (baseline, x-height, ascender, descender), the baseline
definitely wins.  So it's more than just `tradition'.


    Werner