Hi Theppitak, Quoting Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (2020-12-24 10:49:07) > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 12:51 AM Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > fonts-tlwg are provided as both Truetype and Opentype, > > but package descriptions lack any mention of when either format is > > more suitable. > > > > Maybe Truetype fonts include hinting omitted from Opentype fonts. > > Maybe Opentype fonts include feature sets lacking in Truetype fonts. > > Maybe they are technically equal but consuming applications vary > > in their support for accessing all features of either format. > > > > Please add mention of which format is better when. > > They are supposed to provide the same typographical features, > except for the underlying CFF and TTF glyph formats. > > I'm about to add this paragraph to 'fonts-thai-tlwg' package > description: > > Every font in this package is provided in TrueType and OpenType > formats for users to choose to suit their needs. Both formats are > maintained to provide the same glyph set, glyph design, and > typographical features, except that curves and hints are defined in > CFF format for the OpenType version, and in TTF format for the > TrueType version. > > Do you think it's sufficient? Or should I try to evaluate the current > quality of both formats as rendered by FreeType? > > To my personal taste, the OpenType version used to be inferior, until > the FreeType CFF rendering improvement was contributed by Adobe. And > now I prefer the OpenType version personally. The TrueType hinting, > however, is based purely on FontForge auto-instruction, no manual > tuning.
I think your proposed text is great! I don't think it is suitable to include info on how well each each curve formats are rendered - such text belong at the various renderers (most notably libfreetype, but maybe also libSDL and others), and vary as those renderers evolve and with how they are used. Thanks! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
signature.asc
Description: signature
