Thank you, Werner! Regarding NotoSansBengali, I’ve filed https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/601.
— Sascha On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > I've now extended both FreeType and ttfautohint to handle the Bengali > script. To get good hinting results, it was necessary to implement > top-to-bottom hinting – up to now, FreeType only supported > bottom-to-top hinting, this is, starting with the lowest blue zone, > searching serifs and stems while going upwards. As a side effect, > Devenagari script support was also changed to use top-to-bottom > hinting, which should improve rendering. > > For testing, the `noto-hinted' github repository has been extended > with NotoSansBengali[*] and NotoSansDevanagari. > > https://rawgit.com/lemzwerg/noto-hinted/master/ > > Enjoy! > > > Werner > > > [*] GDI hinting, as shown e.g. on this page > > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lemzwerg/noto-hinted/master/NotoSansBengali/NotoSansBengali-Regular-gGD-bn-win8.1_firefox_37.0.png > > gets clipped at the top. This could be fine-tuned with > ttfautohint options, but I think it would be better to adjust > NotSansBengali's value of `usWinAscent' in the `OS/2' table – if > you look at > > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lemzwerg/noto-hinted/master/NotoSansBengali/NotoSansBengali-Regular-manual-bn-win8.1_firefox_37.0.png > > you can see that even with manual hinting the top gets cut off > also at 9px. The same happens for NotoSansDevanagari, BTW. > -- — Sascha
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