I'm still missing something. Why would the direction of the contour matter if, in either case, it's the same set of points?
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 6:52 AM Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > You said that for an i - like shape: > >> Both contours have the same direction. > > > > What kind of problems does this rule protect against? > > Sorry, this was sloppily formulated. It's about the *local* direction > of contours, that is, whether a horizontal contour segment goes from > left to right or from right to left. For the 'i' stem and the 'i' > dot, both contours must have the same direction globally, but locally, > at the dividing space, the corresponding lower and upper segments must > have the opposite directions. > > > Werner >
