Re: [ft-devel] cubic clean up

2010-11-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Shaded areas Before and After in the attached figures show where control points have should be to permit flattening. Is this a risky change? If anything, it is slightly more conservative, yet the conditional is quite a bit simpler. Uh, oh, I have no idea what you are talking about. Please

RE: [ft-devel] cubic clean up

2010-11-12 Thread David Bevan
Aleksei, If you relax the condition, you increase the number of splits. Normally, making such a change is a mistake because the benefit of simplifying the condition is easily outweighed by the greater cost of increasing the recursive depth. This is the very reason why we ended up with a much

Re: [ft-devel] cubic clean up

2010-11-12 Thread Алексей Подтележников
I am really annoyed by run-arounds and overzealous protection of code by authors. I was proposing a minor benign improvement. I am touching the water so to speak. What's the big deal? Way to attract developers, freetypers! You go! ___ Freetype-devel

Re: [ft-devel] cubic clean up

2010-11-12 Thread Алексей Подтележников
I think I can get though to this guy... 2010/11/12 David Bevan david.be...@pb.com: I've just had a brief chance to look at your proposal, and I now understand why it makes no difference to the output. The chances of your relaxed condition causing a split when the current (theoretically

Re: [ft-devel] cubic clean up

2010-11-12 Thread GRAHAM ASHER
Aleksei, you really shouldn't be annoyed. My earlier patch was shown to be inferior to David Bevan's, and I was obliged to accept the fact. The only possible criteria are objective ones: does it work? is it faster? is it simpler? I believe David has shown using objective arguments that the

Re: [ft-devel] cubic clean up

2010-11-12 Thread Алексей Подтележников
All, If you at least admitted that my patch would produce a better code... If you at least admitted that my patch is interesting... I would gladly provide more explanation. Instead, I hear should not be applied for some bogus reasons, actually just one reason I do not understand it. Now you are

Re: [ft-devel] cubic clean up

2010-11-12 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 11/12/10 07:56, Алексей Подтележников wrote: Let's face it. It's only you and me who understand these conditions. Not really. The rest of us just don't care. Because it's just a Bezier flattener after all... No personal attacks on this list. We're grown ups. behdad

Re: [ft-devel] Re: About Gsub table in opentype.

2010-11-12 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
[+harfbuzz list, Kenichi Handa] On 11/06/10 05:22, mpsuz...@hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote: Hi, To parse OpenType tables at low level and obtain the substituted glyph index, libotf might be useful. http://www.m17n.org/libotf/ Interesting. I had totally forgotten about libotf. I hope