What happened to autohint?

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 09:48:24 -0500
Tom Horsley wrote:

> What happened to the marvellous effect autohint used to
> have? Is there something new I have to jigger to get it
> turned on?

Answering my own question after a bit of comparison
between f18 and f17:

Not only did the autohint file move to
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf,
but the content changed as well.

Instead of a symlink, I made a copy and changed the
"append" operation to "assign", and suddenly the
scales fell from my eyes! I could see again!