Re: ttfautohint's functionality from the removal of the infinality patch
Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
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>>> And dropping support, and/or compatibility/ awareness of intended
>>> usages of outcome in other *cough* microsoft *cough* hinting
>>> models?
>>
>> Well, the Infinality stuff was basically unmaintained; it
>> essentially consisted of a large bunch of exceptions for some
>> special fonts. Alexei and I agree that we no longer need this.
>> There was not a single voice objecting to its removal, by the
>> way...
>
> Great!
>
> Given that freetype still somehow has the role of a free software
> reference interpretation of the loose MS instructed gridfit
> description, it can only be welcomed if freetype-specifics get out
> of that.
What exactly do you mean with 'freetype-specifics'? The Infinality
patch aimed to implement v38 of the MS TrueType interpreter as close
as possible, and for the supported fonts it worked quite well.
Werner