Re: Progress update on adjustment database

I'm still missing something.  Why would the direction of the contour matter
if, in either case, it's the same set of points?

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 6:52 AM Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > You said that for an i - like shape:
> >> Both contours have the same direction.
> >
> > What kind of problems does this rule protect against?
>
> Sorry, this was sloppily formulated.  It's about the *local* direction
> of contours, that is, whether a horizontal contour segment goes from
> left to right or from right to left.  For the 'i' stem and the 'i'
> dot, both contours must have the same direction globally, but locally,
> at the dividing space, the corresponding lower and upper segments must
> have the opposite directions.
>
>
>     Werner
>