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Re: Has anyone designed fonts for their language

From:Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
Date:Thursday, May 31, 2001, 7:33
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:55:18PM +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > I keep hearing about things but not knowing what they are, like hinting. Can > > anyone point out a resource (preferably online) to merely learn the > > terminology and theory behind fontmaking for me? > > > > The online manual of pfaedit is pretty good > (pfaedit.sourceforge.net/overview.html). Basically, kerning determines > the spacing between letters. You'd want A and V to overlap, so that the > top left of V is over the right of the A. Hinting is about showing > fonts on screen. When computing pixel positions out of bezier curves, > you'd often place a pixel half-way to pixel positions on the screen. > Hinting gives extra information for the accurate and pleasing placement > of pixels in those cases where a single pixel makes a lot of > difference.
Thanks for the info. I did find the overview part of the docs for pfaedit just a bit after posting my question, and it looks like it might actually make some sense. And I see the prog now has some support for TrueType :)
> > Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
-- Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo