[OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints

[Erik van Blokland]

On 15 jun 2010, at 09:12, Ben Laenen wrote:

> And the main reason why you shouldn't work with UFO *at this moment*
> is that it doesn't support basic stuff like truetype hinting yet.

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". For instance, for storing vector or kerning  
information there is far less ambiguity and it is easier to define a  
shape for storing the data that's useful for all.

Note that arbitrary application data or project specific data can be  
stored and retrieved from the UFO font.lib. It doesn't need much more  
than a "org.openfontlibrary.hinting.truetype" entry to make a place to  
store something.

Cheers,
Erik