Re: More diacritic support for the auto-hinter

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> Sat, 10 May 2025 05:12:35 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> please have a look at
> 
>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/merge_requests/360
> 
> and test it with your most beloved fonts :-)

This has been merged a few days ago, and I've just merged

  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/merge_requests/363

into 'master', too – this MR greatly reduces the number of distortions
caused by diacritics directly attached to the base glyph (like
character 'ę').

Please test these changes and report if the rendering becomes worse!


    Werner


PS: You might experience some slowdown at loading fonts that support
    many (Latin-like) scripts.  Reducing the startup time will be
    implemented soon, doing lazy evaluation of scripts.