Re: [ft-devel] [PATCH] CJK Autohinter should not clump stems together when there are too many of them

[mpsuzuki]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:35:29 +0200 (CEST)
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> One of my anxiety was that the priority to the black/white evenness
>> can reduce the contrast of the complex glyph.  Please find attached
>> picture comparing the results by HeiseiMaruGo-W4 at 16pt @ 72dpi. In
>> my personal impression, the legibility of the strokes in enclosed
>> area (like "日" or "目") is not important, but the legibility of the
>> longest stroke should be respected. Please let me know how your
>> opinion.
>
>Thanks for reviewing.  Do you have an idea how to increase the
>legibility of the longest strokes?  Contrary to the proposed patch I
>think that this what you suggest is quite hard a job to achieve since
>you not only have to do feature analysis, e.g., mark horizontal stems
>which are surrounded by vertical stems like this
>
>   |-----|
>
>as `unimportant', but also distort the glyph accordingly so that
>`important' stems are aligned to the grid...

I think what I requested (the longest stem should not be
blurred) is difficult to co-exist with the proposed patch.
So, if we find some comments that the rasterized result
by 2.2.5 is too blurred and 2.2.4 is better, I will propose
to revert the patch and discuss the appropriate condition
to enable the feature. Fortunately, the proposed patch is
not drastic.

>Please commit to the git repository if you think that your reviewed
>patch is OK now.

OK, I will apply it within 24 hours.

Regards,
mpsuzuki