Re: [ft] How to get Horizontal Advance on Stroked Glyph

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Does that mean if, in general, if I add an N pixel stroke, I would
> add a 2*N pixel advance to account for the stroke on each side,
> where N is an integer?

It really depends on the amount of the added thickness, your personal
taste, the font itself, etc., etc.; if it were a one-to-one
relationship, FreeType would adjust it automatically.

> Would I also do the same for advancing each line of text vertically?

It's the same situation, yes.

> Also, how do I advise a patch to update the documentation?  Is that
> something that you will handle?

The doc files are generated from the header files.  I thus ask you to
open the file ftstroke.h, improve the wording (or add some words or
sentences) and send me a diff to the original version.


    Werner