On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <
address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Behdad Esfahbod
> <
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>> Still confused. What's wrong with an outline with 0 contours and
>> points. Ie. empty?
>
> :) Not everything has value. Some things are just empty. This is not a
> complex concept.
I truly don't understand what you are talking about.
Is this about fonts with a glyf table that has glyphs with numContours set to zero, instead of the glyph data being 0-lengthed? If yes, then that is NOT illegal. Quoting the spec:
SHORT numberOfContoursIf the number of contours is greater than
or equal to zero, this is a single glyph; if negative, this is a composite glyph.
https://www.microsoft.com/typography/OTSPEC/glyf.htmHow is a empty glyph represented? Too lazy to check.