Re: Bug#216943: bitstream: The dots above the letter a-umlaut are too far to the left

[Michael Fedrowitz <michaelf debian org>]

retitle 216943 ttf-bitstream-vera: diacritics sometimes not correctly positioned
severity 216943 normal
tags 216943 + upstream
forwarded 216943 fonts gnome org
thanks

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:00:42PM +0200, Karl Eklund wrote:

 Hi,

> In the letter a-umlaut, at sizes 8 and below, the dots are too far to
> the left, which looks very ugly.

As a matter of fact this is true for all accented characters at certain
sizes. The problem is that the combined characters in the Vera fonts
don't have any hinting of their own to keep the parts in the correct
relative positions.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:58:16PM +0200, Karl Eklund wrote:

> I would like to add that it does not happen when 'freetype
> auto-hinting' is turned on after 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'.

Yes, but by using the auto hinter you lose the (mostly) excellent
hinting of the Vera fonts. Maybe configuring fontconfig to use the auto
hinter at those sizes where you have problems and the normal hinting
instructions otherwise would be a reasonable workaround.

-Michael