Re: ttfautohint's functionality from the removal of the infinality patch

[Jan Bruns]

On 18.08.23 23:27, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > And dropping support, and/or compatibility/ awareness of intended
> > usages of outcome in other *cough* microsoft *cough* hinting models?
> Well, the Infinality stuff was basically unmaintained; it essentially
> consisted of a large bunch of exceptions for some special fonts.
> Alexei and I agree that we no longer need this.  There was not a
> single voice objecting to its removal, by the way...

Great!


Given that freetype still somehow has the role of a free software 
reference interpretation of the loose MS instructed gridfit description, 
it can only be welcomed if freetype-specifics get out of that.


Gruss


Jan Bruns