Re: [ft] [ft-devel] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions

[Eben Sorkin]

Here is lower case ef in Arno pro. It is a different height.

Here is Candara

 This is nearly the same.

In caps here is the candara example again with the difference minimized but 
with the central line a bit taller

In this example again Arno Pro the serifs on the central line are higher and 
lower than a standard overshoot.

I think the Cambria example represents a process of making different things the 
same for the sake of leaving a simpler technology in place. It would be great 
if Freetype embraced the exceptional or more diverse behavior of Cyrillic.

I suggest that you write to Gerry Leonidas about the Greek.

-e.





On Sep 22, 2013, at 1:48 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> 
> 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?

No, Here I will attache some images as examples. 

> 
>> 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