Re: [ft-devel] Problem in coordinate convertion in FreeType
Recently, I worded on OCR in Chinese characters, I use FreeType (2.3.5) to collect the image samples of character, but the character is not center aligned in image, here's my problem post on StackOverflow and my Blog: [...] Please provide a *complete* command line example which compiles out of the box (ideally with gcc), and which produces simple ASCII output (if necessary). Have a look at http://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/example1.c to see what I mean. Actually, it's still too large since it is no longer a minimal example, but I think you get the idea. Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
[ft-devel] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions
Folks, I have two questions: 1. Do Cyrillic or Greek outline fonts exist which don't contain the ASCII characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9? 2. Do you know of any Cyrillic or Greek fonts where the lowercase and uppercase glyph heights differ from the heights of the Latin glyphs? Given that all three alphabets share e.g. characters `A' and `o', this rather sounds implausible, but who knows... Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions
Hi Werner, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: I have two questions: 1. Do Cyrillic or Greek outline fonts exist which don't contain the ASCII characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9? I can speek only about Cyrillic here, but I haven't seen any cyrillic font without latin letters and 0-9 digits. It simply doesn't make sence since often texts have mixed cyrillic/latin-based context. 2. Do you know of any Cyrillic or Greek fonts where the lowercase and uppercase glyph heights differ from the heights of the Latin glyphs? Given that all three alphabets share e.g. characters `A' and `o', this rather sounds implausible, but who knows... Again regarding Cyrillic that's not the case, and very often for instance truetype fonts (Arial is one of them) have cyrillic glyphs as a composite of the existing latin ones with a transform/composition applied: an example is: Я - R with a mirroring transform attached. -- Dmitry. ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:49:29AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Folks, I have two questions: 1. Do Cyrillic or Greek outline fonts exist which don't contain the ASCII characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9? Most of GFS fonts do not contain the ASCII letters: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces1.html 2. Do you know of any Cyrillic or Greek fonts where the lowercase and uppercase glyph heights differ from the heights of the Latin glyphs? Given that all three alphabets share e.g. characters `A' and `o', this rather sounds implausible, but who knows... Not exactly what you are asking for, but GFS Philostratos’ Latin lowercase is just a copy of the uppercase, though the Greek part has true lowercase. Regards, Khaled ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions
Denis Jacquerye denis.jacque...@daltonmaag.com wrote: Some designers have Cyrillic with slightly taller x-height (sometimes by a minute amount) to adjust the squareness of the script relative to the roundness of Latin, even glyphs that are usually components have adjusted outlines. Other designers recommend components but different spacing (slightly larger side bearings) instead of x-height to address the issue. Could you please name a couple of fonts that behave like that? -- Dmitry. ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions
Hi, Some designers have Cyrillic with slightly taller x-height (sometimes by a minute amount) to adjust the squareness of the script relative to the roundness of Latin, even glyphs that are usually components have adjusted outlines. Other designers recommend components but different spacing (slightly larger side bearings) instead of x-height to address the issue. On 22 Sep 2013 08:47, Dmitry Timoshkov dmi...@baikal.ru wrote: Hi Werner, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: I have two questions: 1. Do Cyrillic or Greek outline fonts exist which don't contain the ASCII characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9? I can speek only about Cyrillic here, but I haven't seen any cyrillic font without latin letters and 0-9 digits. It simply doesn't make sence since often texts have mixed cyrillic/latin-based context. 2. Do you know of any Cyrillic or Greek fonts where the lowercase and uppercase glyph heights differ from the heights of the Latin glyphs? Given that all three alphabets share e.g. characters `A' and `o', this rather sounds implausible, but who knows... Again regarding Cyrillic that's not the case, and very often for instance truetype fonts (Arial is one of them) have cyrillic glyphs as a composite of the existing latin ones with a transform/composition applied: an example is: Я - R with a mirroring transform attached. -- Dmitry. ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] [ft] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions
On 13-09-22 11:20, Denis Jacquerye wrote: Some designers have Cyrillic with slightly taller x-height (sometimes by a minute amount) to adjust the squareness of the script relative to the roundness of Latin, even glyphs that are usually components have adjusted outlines. Veronika Burian's Maiola is one such example. A. -- May success attend your efforts, -- Adam Twardoch (Remove list. from e-mail address to contact me directly.) ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] manual pages for freetype2-demos
Please find attached some minimal draft man pages, mainly based upon the usage output of the various tools. Any kind of feedback/review is appreciated since I hardly know anything about freetype, and whether you are interested in adding man pages upstream at all. Thanks for the man pages, I'll check and eventually add them to the ft2demos bundle. I'm not too happy that distributions like Debian publish all of the FreeType demo programs (for example, `ftgamma' has essentially no real use); maybe this can be improved somehow. Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] [ft] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions
Thanks to all who have responded. In git, the auto-hinter now handles Cyrillic and Greek separately from Latin glyphs. Please test! Cyrillic glyphs need two accommodations. The letter Ef in capital form should overshoot the usual cap height AND overshoot. You probably mean letter Ef in lowercase form, right? Free type should allow for this exception in some way. This should now work. I've simply omitted a top blue zone for small letters with ascenders. Small caps in Cyrillic may need to have their own height which differs from the one used by the Latin. Again, it would be ideal if free type knows this can happen. This will be (almost) automatically supported as soon as the linking issue with HarfBuzz gets resolved. I've already written the code for OpenType feature support, which is now waiting for testing :-) Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] manual pages for freetype2-demos
Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: I'm not too happy that distributions like Debian publish all of the FreeType demo programs (for example, `ftgamma' has essentially no real use); maybe this can be improved somehow. Why? As a Debian user, I'm often glad that the FT demo progs are there, because they can be useful. Maybe ftgamma isn't so useful, but if it's not actively _harmful_, why go to the bother of making an exception? Users can just ... not run it. Thanks, -Miles -- Custard, n. A vile concoction produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
