Re: [ft-devel] freetype-py python binding to FontVal's FreeType backend.

[Werner LEMBERG]

> A bit more detail. In the FontVal C# code, the _rast_* status symbol
> is further converted into the report as
> 
> W6020 "Setting the loop variable to zero is an error"
> 
> That information comes from
> Font-Validator/GenerateFValData/OurData.xml . You can do something
> like this (sorry this is GNU grep syntax, which Mac OS X's grep is
> not):
> 
> grep -B1 -A3 \
>      _rast_W_FT_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE_ \
>      Font-Validator/GenerateFValData/OurData.xml \
> | grep -E '(helpID|atom|shortDesc)'
>
>     helpID="W6020"
>     atom="_rast_W_FT_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE_SLOOP"
>     shortDesc="Setting the loop variable to zero is an error"
> 
> While looking up and doing a more friendly message, you can silence
> specific warning(s) that you don't like etc. (I know Werner does not
> like this one - it is the thing from hinting with ttfautohint).

Indeed, because a zero value for the loop variable is *not* an
error :-)


    Werner