>>> I find the top-to-bottom thing curious. Do you have an explanation >>> why it works better for these scripts? >> >> I now think that bottom-to-top for Latin is questionable: L and J >> seem to be the only letters with important features at the >> bottom. Many more letters are heavy at the top. > > I disagree. Hinting as done by the auto-hinter should start at the > zone that is most common – and that is definitely the normal baseline > for Latin (and Cyrillic)
You learned to write on top of the line. Me too. This is a totally arbitrary tradition. We could have learn to write below the line. Actually, at the first grade I wrote between two lines and nobody said which one was more important. Just trying to be provocative. _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
