Re: [ft-devel] New `slight' auto-hinting mode

[Werner LEMBERG]

> afloader.c also contains this quip:
> 
> /*
> *  TODO: This code currently doesn't support fractional advance widths,
> *  i.e., placing hinted glyphs at anything other than integer
> *  x-positions.  This is only relevant for the warper code, which
> *  scales and shifts glyphs to optimize blackness of stems (hinting on
> *  the x-axis by nature places things on pixel integers, hinting on the
> *  y-axis only, i.e., LIGHT mode, doesn't touch the x-axis).  The delta
> *  values of the scaler would need to be adjusted.
> */
> 
> I guess it's obsolete now?

Not yet IMHO.  We should wait until we have a `normal' warping mode
(as suggested by Alexei).


    Werner