[OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints

Ben Laenen benlaenen at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 05:48:55 PDT 2010


Erik van Blokland wrote:
> Perhaps I can explain a bit about the state of support of hinting data
> in UFO. It is largely due to the different ways in which TrueType
> hinting can be represented and the different expectations/formats
> various editors have. We're trying to avoid having to dictate what the
> right way is and left it "for later" or at least for "someone more
> knowledgeable"

Well, it's not exactly ambiguous how to store truetype hinting: you only need 
to define an xml syntax for each hinting instruction to put it in a UFO file. 
No idea how else you'd do this. Or what the different expectations various 
editors would have.

Greetings
Ben


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