On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:50:04 +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 03:01:41AM +0100, Tim van der Molen said that > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:11:44 +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > > > could the poeple making the dejavu fonts port > > > please resubmit it again perhaps updated to 2.28? > > > > Here is a port of 2.28. > > tested. please commit. > > could you please elaborate more on the symlink voodoo? > what does it accomplish? what is the difference between > hinted/unhinted and so on? the message is not clear > wether this is a good thing to do or why is it a good > thing. thanks for the port.
The 20-unhint* symlinks disable hinting at small font sizes. Hints are instructions to improve the rendering of fonts. At small font sizes, however, hinting is not necessary and may decrease legibility in some cases. I'm not an expert, though. Regards, Tim
