ttfautohint 0.97-1 / usr / share / doc / ttfautohint / TODO

important improvements
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add features to the GUI
  -> direct control over `actions'
  -> preview similar to ftgrid
  -> autocompletion of file names with tab key

handle OT features
  -> use HarfBuzz as soon it provides the necessary APIs

control `gasp' table; Adam Twardoch suggest the following:

  1. Calculate "gaspstem", i.e. the most common thickness of horizontal
     stems (y direction distances) for lowercase Latin letters.
  2. If gaspstem <= 0.03 * upm, apply gasp symmetric smoothing across the
     entire range (rangeMaxPPEM 0xFFFF, value 15)
  3. Else, calculate gaspthreshold as follows:
       ceil(1.33 * upm / gaspstem) - 1
  4. Apply no symmetric smoothing up to the gaspthreshold ppem (rangeMaxPPEM
     gaspthreshold, value 7), and apply symmetric smoothing above.

  In addition, ttfautohint should provide a commandline parameter that
  allows the user to override the automatic logic.  If that parameter = 0,
  then gasp value 15 should be applied across the entire range.  If the
  parameter > 0, then up to that parameter value the gasp value 7 should be
  applied, and gasp value 15 should be applied above.

create a separate blue zone class for `i' and `j':
  . if the values differ more than a given threshold, handle them
    separately
  . otherwise, unify them with `f' and friends.

control the characters used for blue zones
  -> non-latin scripts

user-defined blue zones?
  -> old-style digits

control the width of blue zones

add control over character ranges which define a script; in particular, add
  support for the PUA

handle normal and bold fonts differently; cf. Infinality patches;
  this should help avoid filling of bowls (like in `e') for bold shapes.

help font families harmonize well so that e.g. x height and stem width
  change synchronously

control the minimum stem width

try to `embolden' fonts at small sizes to avoid drop-outs; cf. Infinality
  patches

make switching between smooth and strong hinting dependent on user-defined
  ranges

improve `pre-hinting' by making the used PPEM value configurable

allow hinting of single glyphs, using a config file which holds the global
  settings

better handling of `incomplete' fonts (this is, fonts which lack the minimum
  set of glyphs necessary to determine the blue zones)


minor improvements
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reject fonts which are `hopeless' (for example, `Lipstick')

correctly set `lowestRecPPEM' field in `head'

control dropout mode

apply hinting in x direction also?
  -> warper: shifting with and without scaling
  -> `standard' autofit hinting

add a config and/or command file for batch handling

warn against overwrite of output file in TTY mode?

reduce output size of option -p:
  1. compare outline rendered at EM value with unhinted outline
  2. pre-hint only if 1. differs more than given threshold (default 0.5%?)

make it possible to hint fonts which aren't alphabetic at all, for example,
  icons; to do so, provide means to skip the global feature analysis

better control -i output

allow processing of multiple files by using globs as in the Midnight
  Commander?

allow composite fonts already processed by ttfautohint to be processed
  again (due to option `hint-with-components' this isn't urgent)

make ttfautohint remember options:
  1. collect md5 checksums in a `~/.ttfautohint_history' file so that fonts
     can be re-processed easily, using the same parameters
  2. if fonts already processed by ttfautohint can be re-processed (which
     isn't possible yet), parse the `version' string for parameters

implement (sort of) the opposite of -x, this is, decrease the x height


later enhancements
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add CJK autohinting module
add Hebrew autohinting module

instead of emitting bytecode, write the hints as a VTT or FontLab script

Windows/Mac installer


various
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testing with Windows and Apple font checkers

man page for ttfautohint library

install library

add help2man script so that parallel builds always work

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