Circling back to this thread took a while.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 6:47 PM Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > I have the output with TRACE7, it's quite big, should I post it here
> > or if you suggest other sharing means?
>
> This is probably not necessary; mentioning the debugging support was
> basically meant for your own education.
>
Okay sure, that was one of the best help I could get.
>
> > I am posting my script if you want to try at your end
>
> Thanks, but I'm not a Python guy, so I won't test this by myself.
>
No problem.
>
> > font = pygame.freetype.Font("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/Sarai/Sarai.ttf",
> 50)
>
pygame spec says its font size.
>
> I haven't found this font in the internet. What I could find,
> however, was a font called `Sarai Regular.ttf` (from 2007, version
> 1.0). The number 50 indicates the PPEM value, right?
Font size.
> If so, hinting
> doesn't matter much, provided the hints are OK[*]: at such large sizes
> it is normally rather irrelevant whether you use hinting or not since
> the difference is very small.
>
Okay.
>
> Anyway, attached you can see three images of `Sarai Regular`, showing
> the output of `ftview` at a size of 16ppem:
>
> * after pressing key 'B' to show TrueType hinting
> * after pressing key 'C' to show 'light' (i.e., auto) hinting
> * pressing 'h' to switch off hinting.
>
> As far as I can tell, the auto-hinted version looks quite good.
>
Tried all and I agree with your assessment.
>
>
> Werner
>
>
> [*] It's not OK for this particular font, for example, look at glyph
> 'glyph177' (glyph index 182), which distorts the horizontal bar.
>
