Subject: Re: bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:00:30 +0100

Werner LEMBERG <[email-masked]> writes:

>
> No.  The `scalable' branch must make a distinction between TrueType
> and non-TrueType fonts if the font gets fully hinted (i.e., if the
> TrueType bytecode gets interpreted), something like
>
>   if (scalable)
>     {
>       if (use_truetype_bytecode_hinting(font))

Hmm, ok. Then it becomes a question of determining how to define
'use_truetype_bytecode_hinting', which is not immediately obvious to
me.

Robert