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Re: Strange hinting of precomposed character
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: Strange hinting of precomposed character |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Jul 2023 04:59:18 +0000 (UTC) |
>> I would expect that, if the diacritic is to be hinted as a
>> horizontal bar, that would occur only at the smallest sizes, and
>> would equally affect the combining diacritic too.
>
> Somebody more knowledgeable can correct me, but I think combining
> diacritics happens with:
>
> Outline1 -> hinted bitmap1
> Outline2 -> hinted bitmap2
>
> Bitmap output = hinted bitmap1 + hinted bitmap2 positioned at
> grid-fitted (ie another "hinting") offsets
>
> (Actually, I think it happens in the opposite order: the grid-fitted
> offsets are calculated first)
>
> compared to a single glyph with two sets of outlines, where the
> outlines are hinted together.
Maybe this section from the ttfautohint manual helps.
https://freetype.org/ttfautohint/doc/ttfautohint.html#composite-glyphs
Werner
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