hand-hinted -- the auto-hint feature of FontForge gives completely
different results. And they sometimes turn out to be hinted badly.
If autohinting doesn't work well (in the latest release of fontforge), I
expect George (Williams, the fontforge author/developer/maintainer)
would like to
1) What applications use the ligatures?
It is certainly possible to end up using them in TeX, one way or another.
I imagine in OpenOffice or whatever, they could also be used, if you
insert the character code where the st ligature is :).
2) In the TrueType fonts
This is another topic,
I mean, what applications make use of the automatic replacement of
strings by ligatures?
TeX does, certainly.
But...these, I think, have their own internal idea of which
replacements to do.
In the case of TeX, the ligatures are completely controlled by the TFM
file. That information comes from the metrics that come with the
original font, so whatever you specify would, ultimately, be used.
I
Know what DOESN'T support OpenType?
Standard TeX does not support OpenType either. (Although there are
variants that do, a font released only as OpenType would be useful to a
tiny minority of TeX users at this point.)
For usefulness in the maximum number of applications, I think the best
thi
The reason why we're not yet sure about it is the possible
incompatibility between the licenses.
I believe freefont is intended to be released under the GPL + the font
exception you refer to
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException), although I'm
having trouble finding a
