On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Repeat 10 times: There also exists grayscale ClearType!  Not
>>> everything is LCD :-)
>>
>> Hinting a glyph after arbitrary shift will result in visibly
>> different widths.
>
> So what?  I'm talking about ClearType hinting that *does* change
> advance widths if necessary, but more subtle than `normal' hinting.
> Think of `warping' but done with TrueType bytecode.
>
>> This ugliness shall not live. If you want subpixel positioning,
>> forget about hinting. I insist.
>
> Maybe we are miscommunicating.  Subpixel positioning does *not* imply
> the same advance widths as with unhinted rendering.

Maybe. I am talking about width as in bounding box that may and will
change if you shift and hint.

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