Help request about hinting dev (Liberation Fonts).

[Caius Chance]

Hi Ben,

Ben Laenen さんは書きました:
> Well, I'm not from the fedora community, but I've got experience from 
> the hinting in the DejaVu fonts.

Even better! :D

>> - Which free hinting tools are available other than fontforge?
> 
> Tools and documentation are listed at 
> http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hinting
> 
> About xgridfit: I'm not really a fan of it. I think it may be usable for 
> hinting completely new fonts, but I wouldn't start using it on an 
> existing font.

Could I know the reason why?

> My hinting work is basically only done with the help of fontforge and 
> gwaterfall.

If you are available, it would be fantastic if you briefly tell me in 10 
-15 steps?

>> - Where could I find resources of hinting instructions? Precisely,
>> full specs of hinting instructions, such as parameter explanation of
>> all hinting instructions

Thomas Sailer gave me few valuable URLs just now, too:

http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM05/Chap5.html

>> - If a CVT table has no comments on each value, do I have to do
>> reverse engineering and how should I begin?
> 
> Yes, you'll have to do some reverse engineering. It takes a considerable 
> amount of time, since you basically have to read the hinting of a lot 
> of glyphs.
> 
> Your goal is to get a table of values you may encounter in normal glyphs 
> (and that for each style). 
> http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Control_Value_Table 
> lists it for DejaVu and many fonts have values for the same things in 
> their CVT so gives an idea what to expect in Liberation.

Good to confirm that with you, so I could start the reverse engineering.

> Here we go then :-)
> When I'm online, find me at #dejavu or ##fonts on IRC if you have 
> questions.

Thanks for your kind offer. :)

Best Regards,
kaio.