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Re: Caesura, n-th time :)
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: Caesura, n-th time :) |
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Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:29:22 +0200 (CEST) |
> [...] my first attempt back in March or April had the problem that
> adjacent curved corners *looked* as if one was larger than the other
> although mathematically they had the same "size" (i.e., radius).
> This was due to a different amount of blackness caused by the slant.
You optical corrections might be valid, however none of the other
glyphs in the Feta font have this. Additionally, I believe it's
optically neglegible.
> I'm surprised that you managed to do it with this much simpler
> approach because I'm sure I tried this myself.
Basically, I just took the code from the slashed note head.
> BTW, regarding your comment in an earlier email about asymmetrical
> corners:
>
> > Regarding `noteheads.s[012]slash', this is not true. If you use
> > mf2pt1 to generate the feta fonts you can see that. I rather
> > suspect an artifact of the current glyph generation with mftrace.
>
> After seizing your suggestion and playing a bit with FontForge (not
> much, though), I still believe that the mentioned glyphs have rather
> unbalanced corners - unless I'm missing something obvious.
If you can provide images which demonstrate exactly what you mean, we
can easily think about ways to improve that in the font -- provided it
can be noticed at all at `standard' resolutions.
Werner
- Re: Caesura, n-th time :), Werner LEMBERG, 2007/10/01
- Re: Caesura, n-th time :), Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2007/10/01
- Re: Caesura, n-th time :), Maximilian Albert, 2007/10/01
- Re: Caesura, n-th time :), Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2007/10/17
- Re: Caesura, n-th time :), Werner LEMBERG, 2007/10/18
- Re: Caesura, n-th time :), Maximilian Albert, 2007/10/24
- Re: Caesura, n-th time :),
Werner LEMBERG <=