Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter: stem darkening, first rough prototype

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

>  Very nice, thanks!  Unfortunately, I currently don't have sufficient
> time to review the code; probably in the beginning of October.

Sure, what matters is that it finds its' way to master and to the masses 
eventually :) I'll test out Dave's 300,250,250,0 parameters in the mean 
time and maybe look at the TrueType driver.

I'm currently dogfooding the darkener without gamma correction (software 
pixman is too slow...) and find that text isn't much uglier than usual 
using lcdlight, so it may be possible to enable this by default without 
too many complaints from unsuspecting users.

I was thinking about writing an announcement article or something if you 
release a version with the darkener to explain why it's done, what users 
should know (lcdlight!) and why distro maintainers and 
drawing-library-developers should care. I hope this would increase 
acceptance and maybe (attention: wishful thinking) some collective 
impulse to improve things instead of "MY FONTS LOOK DIFFERENT YOU 
ANUSES". Maybe even a longer article that explains the font and font 
rendering situation on Linux and what should be done to improve it, to 
publish it on LWN.net and/or the German c't. I'll see.

For now, I'll bask in the glory of emboldened but not gamma-corrected 
glyphs.