Re: real vs. synthetic width glyphs

On 7/9/13 6:06 AM, "Koji Ishii" <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp> wrote:

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>On 2013/07/09 21:49, "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:
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>>Koji Ishii wrote:
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>>> It looks to me that we're in consensus, right?
>>> 
>>> We all want to avoid UA to use poorer methods such as scaling when
>>> all grapheme clusters have the corresponding width-variant glyphs,
>>> and we all are perfectly fine to allow UA to do additional tweaking
>>> when it can produce even better results under some conditions.
>>> 
>>> And it looks to me that it is exactly what we resolved in the last
>>> conf call.
>>> 
>>> So, no one is objecting to the resolution, we're just confirming
>>> that we are on the same page. Correct?
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>>Actually, I think I do see consensus given the responses on the list.
>>User agents should be *required* to use width-specific variants when
>>the font has them.  This was *not* the resolution on the last call,
>>the resolution on the last call said this should be suggested but
>>*optional*.
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>Sylvain said he's perfectly fine to allow additional tweaks if doing so
>produces better results for cases such as #12 and fantasia's example.
>Florian is open to do additional tweaks too. It looks to me that it
>exactly matches to the resolution.

That matches the current resolution, but the part where you said this:

"We all want to avoid UA to use poorer methods such as scaling when all
grapheme clusters have the corresponding width-variant glyphs."

Is not included in the current resolution.

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>It's not clear to me if you're fine with such a half-open-ended approach.
>If you're, we're all in consensus.


If you are fine with changing the current resolution to require use of the
variant glyphs when they are all available, then I agree we're in
consensus.

Thanks,

Alan