Hi Werner,
As far as I can see it is hard to split the project for adding a capability database to the auto-hinter …
Just speculating here… might it be possible to reduce the workload by only focussing on a few characters at first? From what I can see the single worst Latin-script diacritics with regards to hinting seem to be over- and underdots (e.g. ⟨ijḷṃṛ⟩), diaereses, rings, tildes and breves (e.g. ⟨ăĕĭŏŭ⟩, cf. caron ⟨ǎěǐǒǔ⟩), so addressing just those might provide a disproportionally high benefit.
However, it is possible to stretch the time frame up to 22 weeks – maybe this helps?
That helps, but unfortunately I don’t think it would help enough — that would make 16 hours per week, which is more time than I’d have available.
Regards, Brad
