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Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!


From: Behdad Esfahbod
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: Milestone reached!
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:51:13 -0400
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On 06/15/11 06:28, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Finally, there is the problem of glyphs which can't be addressed with
> a cmap directly, like small caps which are activated by an OpenType
> feature.  Similar to FreeType's autohinter, such glyphs don't get any
> special consideration and are treated by the default hinting module
> (in FreeType this is the `cjk' module currently, and in ttfautohint it
> can be either `dummy' or `latin', to be controlled by another
> yet-to-be-written configuration option :-).  This is quite a generic
> problem and needs separate attention; for the moment it is beyond my
> work on ttfautohint.

With HarfBuzz it's quite easy to list every glyph that can be accessed
through, say, the 'latn' GSUB table.  I probably can provide some API for such
introspection.  That may solve your ttfautohint problem, but not FreeType's.

behdad



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