Re: skyline vertical spacing

[Juergen Reuter]

Maybe the real point here is that for almost all glyphs we want to have a 
_convex_ outline (such that e.g. stems do not extend into glyphs) rather 
than a tight skyline?

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Werner LEMBERG escreveu:
> > > > I'm not sure whether an automated process really gives satisfactory
> > > > results.
> > > The skyline could approximate the real outline with arbitrary
> > > precision.  What's the problem?
> >
> > It's the opposite.  A too-good approximation of the outline might be
> > too tight.
>
> It should be easy to fatten an outline to get some extra padding. Making 
> outlines by hand will be error prone, and time consuming, as they have to 
> scale exactly with all the MF parameters.