[ft] libfreetype/autohint feature

[westlake]

Hi guys,

I have a little question on autohinting with libfreetype.

I am interested in getting into making my own font and according to 
fontforge's documentation on 
http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/The_Final_Output_Generating_Font_Files.html 


"FontForge allows you to hint your font (and even provides an Autohint 
function), but in practice this step is not strictly necessary. Modern 
operating systems often have better grid-fitting functionality built 
into their text rendering engines than you can create yourself without 
expending considerable time and effort. In fact, Mac OS X and Linux both 
ignore any hints embedded in the font file itself. If you do decide your 
font needs hinting for the benefit of Windows users, your best bet is to 
build the font without embedded hints, then use a specialized 
application such as ttfautohint to add hinting after the fact."

So my question is, is there a way I can completely disable auto-hinting?

I would like to create a font without any hinting but then I wouldn't 
want the libfreetype engine trying to perform auto-hinting.

If I'm correct it is the engine that decides how much extra hinting it 
wants to do on a particular font, and rather not the font itself.

Let me know if this is possible if I got this right.

thanks