[Bug 21197] hinted numerals aren't fixed-width in all sizes of dejavu sans font

bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org
Thu Apr 16 05:15:22 UTC 2009


http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21197





--- Comment #3 from Werner Lemberg <wl at gnu.org>  2009-04-15 22:15:21 PST ---
It's completely irrelevant whether the unhinted numerals have the same width
or not.  In a TrueType font, the hinting instructions modify the advance width
as needed, and this information is not available to the autohinter.

There are two possibilities: Either FreeType gets an option for the autohinting
module to instruct that some glyphs (numerals and probably some others too)
should have the same width, or the library which uses FreeType does this.  IMHO
it should be the latter.


-- 
Configure bugmail: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug.




More information about the Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list