Re: [ft-devel] Auto Embolding of Lohit Devanagari (Re: where might be a problem)

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:54 AM, suzuki toshiya
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:05 AM, address@hidden
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>   Lohit Devanagari does not have Bold variant and presently using auto bold
>>>> algorithm. It does not work correctly in gnome  see
>>>> http://pravins.fedorapeople.org/Screenshot.png
>>>>
>>>>   Can someone given me pointer that why might be wrong?
>>> Which version of Freetype does that? Can you compare Freetype 2.4.5 and 
>>> 2.4.8?
>>> A new stroker code by David Bevan was introduced in 2.4.6.
>
> It seems that FreeType 2.4.5 shows same problem.

I think it is clear what is happening:
instead of interpreting a point as a corner between two straight segments,
this point is considered a control point of a conic Bézier curve.
Since every glyph
suffers from it, could it be a first or a last segment? An off-by-one
error somewhere?