Re: Progress update on adjustment database

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Just take the extrema of *all* points – for fonts this should be
> > good enough, because it is standard to have points at the curve
> > extrema, thus making the bounding box of the curve identical to
> > the bounding box of the points (both on and off points).
> 
> Ok, thanks.  This is exactly what I needed.  I was already trying
> this, but I thought it was wrong because of off points.

For your information, you might also look at FreeType's function
`FT_Glyph_Get_CBox`, which handles the generic case.

> What I mean is: my code allows the adjustment for i to be applied to
> glyphs with more than 2 contours to also adjust accented o and a, so
> the rules you suggested would reject around half of the characters
> that are currently being adjusted this way.  I think your rules can
> still be enforced by treating the contour to be moved as "A" and all
> other contours collectively as "B".

Yeah, I was especially referring to glyph 'i', since here the problem
is most visible.

>> [...] I ask you to have this in mind to find a solution that can be
>> easily extended to cover this situation, too (for example, by using
>> an extendable structure instead of a plain variable).
> 
> In this case, do you mean that instead of making a codepoint a key
> for the database directly, I should wrap it in a struct so that
> other kind of keys can be added?

Something like this, yes.  Just try to be generic, and think of
possible extensions.


   Werner