Re: [ft] [ft-devel] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions

[Werner LEMBERG]

Thanks to all who have responded.  In git, the auto-hinter now handles
Cyrillic and Greek separately from Latin glyphs.  Please test!

> Cyrillic glyphs need two accommodations.  The letter Ef in capital
> form should overshoot the usual cap height AND overshoot.

You probably mean letter Ef in lowercase form, right?

> Free type should allow for this exception in some way.

This should now work.  I've simply omitted a top blue zone for small
letters with ascenders.

> Small caps in Cyrillic may need to have their own height which
> differs from the one used by the Latin.  Again, it would be ideal if
> free type knows this can happen.

This will be (almost) automatically supported as soon as the linking
issue with HarfBuzz gets resolved.  I've already written the code for
OpenType feature support, which is now waiting for testing :-)


    Werner