Re: ttfautohint's functionality from the removal of the infinality patch
Hin-Tak Leung <[email protected]>
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On Friday, 25 August 2023 at 05:38:14 BST, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > Infinality (v38) was substituted by v40 in 2.13.1. Anybody requesting > v38 got v40 instead... and nobody even noticed. That is the whole > point of the exercise: v40 is perfectly capable and better than just > good enough. Now the code is physically gone for good. It is much > better to improve faster and lighter v40 moving forward than dwelling > on unmaintained, poorly understood, and riddled with exceptions v38. "Better" is your personal opinion. Anyway, I think some of others' "personal opinion" (different from yours) is simply based on familiarity - some people are just more familiar with MS/Apple rendering, and therefore prefer it. In the end of the day, FreeType is not MS/Apple font scaler. Fact. As long as v38 is different from v40, some part of it is closer than v40 to MS/Apple's. Also fact.