Re: [ft-devel] first auto-hinter infinality patch added to git

2012-09-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Will this arrive in ttfautohint? :) This is already in ttfautohint since a few months (option -x). For testing properties, I've first played with this in ttfautohint, and using the new FreeType property framework, I've added this feature to the auto-hinter too. Right now I'm synchronizing

Re: [ft-devel] Freetype 2.4.10 MSVC++ / Cygwin Compile fails

2012-09-19 Thread suzuki toshiya
RMWChaos wrote: On 2012-09-18 23:26, mpsuz...@hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote: $ /cygdrive/e/MSVC2005/VC/bin/cl.exe /? /cygdrive/e/MSVC2005/VC/bin/cl.exe: error while loading shared libraries: MSVCR80.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I don't have this

Re: [ft-devel] first auto-hinter infinality patch added to git

2012-09-19 Thread vernon adams
I know i've asked this before :) but, could this concept also be used to Decrease the xheight at particular char sizes? Because decreasing the xheight can also increase legibility at some small sizes on some fonts. -v On Sep 18, 2012, at 10:02 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: Folks,

Re: [ft-devel] Freetype 2.4.10 MSVC++ / Cygwin Compile fails

2012-09-19 Thread RMWChaos
On 2012-09-18 23:26, mpsuz...@hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote: Hmm. My concerns about Cygwin + MSVC cross compiling are following 2 points: * The compiler linker of MSVC are dependent with many MSDOS environmental variables designed for MSVC (to make compiler/linker search appropriate SDK directories

Re: [ft-devel] first auto-hinter infinality patch added to git

2012-09-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I know i've asked this before :) Have you? I can't remember. but, could this concept also be used to Decrease the xheight at particular char sizes? Because decreasing the xheight can also increase legibility at some small sizes on some fonts. I'll add this to the TODO list. Could you

Re: [ft-devel] Freetype 2.4.10 MSVC++ / Cygwin Compile fails

2012-09-19 Thread RMWChaos
On 2012-09-19 10:30, suzuki toshiya wrote: [...snip...] Ahh, I see. I will try. Using autoconf for Cygwin/MSVC is pretty common in my (albeit limited) experience. You can refer to various libs to see this for yourself. An example is lib ICU, which has a CYGWIN/MSVC option in its configure

Re: [ft-devel] Freetype 2.4.10 MSVC++ / Cygwin Compile fails

2012-09-19 Thread RMWChaos
On 2012-09-19 11:07, RMWChaos wrote: If I remove cygwin from my path statement first, it then defaults to the dos/windows setup, which is an improvement. Unfortunately, something else is now failing... process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, type builds\newline, ...) failed. make (e=2): The