Re: First stab at getting script offsets right. (issue 5235052)

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> [...] We need to think about a better approach of character boxes
>> in MetaFont.  The ideal solution would be to create a mask for each
>> character.  [...]
>
> Not necessarily - you can stash all sorts of information in font
> tables, which are then accessible via the otf_tables.

Exactly.  The meta-ness really helps here in defining auxiliary points
which could serve for better metrics instead of plain boxes.  If you
look up the mailing list, such ideas have already been presented years
ago; cf. this thread:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-11/msg00162.html


      Werner