[Fontconfig] Changing to hintslight globally by default + hintfull for otfs

[Akira TAGOH]

Thank you for reminding me. changes has been pushed into git now.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Nikolaus Waxweiler <madigens at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not  really. speaking of changing constant name and attributes
>> mainly, given that we changed something around this, users still
>> doesn't know what is the best choice even though how those looks
>> better may be subjective. just thought it may be helpful to provide
>> configuration files per font format as examples with more detailed
>> comments rather than changing/adding something for people only who
>> knows technical thing in fonts so that they can learn what's better
>> for their env after that. that said, it comes up from the name of
>> FT_LOAD_TARGET_XXX somewhat and still behaves differently with the
>> same flags among font formats as you mentioned, it might be better
>> changing in FreeType first if you like.
>
>
> Okay, so would like to see:
> - 10-ttf-hintnative-xy.conf
> - 10-ttf-hintauto-yonly.conf
> - 10-ttf-hintnone.conf
> - 10-otf-hintnative-yonly.conf
> - 10-otf-hintauto-yonly.conf
> - 10-otf-hintnone.conf
> - 10-pfab-hintnative-???.conf
> - 10-pfab-hintauto-yonly.conf
> - 10-pfab-hintnone.conf
> including comments that explain what's going on and why? Will look into it.
>
> I'm note sure about FT's API, I guess it's set in stone until FreeType 3.
> I'll just start with the above confs ;)
>
>> I don't have any objections for changing the default hintstyle in
>> fontconfig personally otherwise. as I wrote earlier, the improvements
>> are welcome.
>
>
> :)
>
> From the above list, I'd recommend setting
> - 10-ttf-hintauto-yonly.conf
> - 10-otf-hintnative-yonly.conf
> - 10-pfab-hintauto-yonly.conf
> as the default active configurations. As soon as I have written them :D
>
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Akira TAGOH