Changeset f072b06f

Timestamp:

11/25/2023 03:16:26 AM (7 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

12.1, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

dcc1b92

Parents:

e73a0309

Message:

tuningfonts: Pango no-longer supports full hinting.

Details eventually found (from 2020), with a very ugly set of bug
responses.

Note: Putting the commented link to the bug on a new line adds a
blank line to the rendered file, and there is already a blank line.
Moving the comment to the same line as the text fixes that.

File:

• x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml (modified) (1 diff)

x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml

@@ -426 +426 @@
     <!-- options for hintstyle:
     hintfull: is supposed to give a crisp font that aligns well to the
-    character-cell grid but at the cost of its proper shape.
+    character-cell grid but at the cost of its proper shape. However, anything
+    using Pango >= 1.44 will not support full hinting, Pango now uses harfbuzz
+    for hinting. Apps which use Skia (e.g. Chromium, Firefox) should not be
+    affected by this. <!-- https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2394 -->
 
     hintmedium: is reported to be broken.