On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 6:02 AM Nikolaus Waxweiler <[email protected]>
wrote:

> > This is certainly the most convenient solution for me since I have
> > nothing to do on the FreeType side :-)
>
> (As an aside, GTK/Pango seem to make the same mistake as TextEdit then,
> putting the line gap at the bottom instead of on both sides or something,
> so this would still look wrong even if FT would default to typo metrics for
> VFs)
>

lineGap should be put in between two neighboring lines only.



> > Your question, however, is a fundamental one: Shall a VF font be
> > always treated as VF, or is the `VFness' an optional feature?
>
> I'd say the primary purpose of a VF is to be a VF, it is only optionally
> so for applications that don't know what a VF is. You'd think that using
> the hhea metrics for the default outlines would make sense in that case,
> but this still presents a corner case if the applications increases in
> smartness and suddenly the same font has different metrics 🤔
>


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behdad
http://behdad.org/
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