Re: [ft-devel] [ft] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Werner,

I would resist any excessively special treatment for Cyrillic. Whoever
makes the glyphs that should be shared with Latin look different is
misguided. Please do not go overboard with this. There are some rather
common unique cyrillic fonts. Check out the PSCyr collection

http://www.tex.uniyar.ac.ru/package/fonts/pscyr/0.4d-beta9/

Speaking of squareness of Cyrillic or lack thereoff, look at this:

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/5046/inkscape2t.jpg

Best,
Alexei

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I think the Cambria example represents a process of making different
>> things the same for the sake of leaving a simpler technology in
>> place.  It would be great if Freetype embraced the exceptional or
>> more diverse behavior of Cyrillic.
>
> Thanks for the instructive images.  However, the height differences
> are only visible if the ppem value is quite large.  Given that the
> auto-hinter ignores blue zones larger than ¾px (this is, if the
> difference between `overshoot' height and `flat' height is larger than
> ¾px), I think this is a non-issue.
>
> As soon as HarfBuzz support is possible, small caps will get a
> separate set of blue zones, as will be the case for other
> typographical features.
>
>
>     Werner
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Alexei A. Podtelezhnikov, PhD