They are all now sensible fractions of the standard width.
Extra Condensed has changed from 62/100 to 5/8.
Condensed has changed from 76/100 to 3/4.
Semi Condensed has changed from 88/100 to 7/8.
Extended has changed from 124/100 to 5/4.
This makes rather a lot of dimensions non-integer, but the only
significant ones are the "palt" width adjustments, and I think that's
an acceptable tradeoff for making the standard widths more sensible.
Inspired by seeing U+1F69A DELIVERY TRUCK in the subject line of an
email, here's a glyph for that and also U+1F680 ROCKET and U+1F682
STEAM LOCOMOTIVE.
This makes them match the lower-case "f" of which these characters
were originally turned versions, and also makes U+0284 LATIN SMALL
LETTER DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK more visually distinct from
U+0192 LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK.
I've made so many bad attempts at this character that this feels like
a win. Also, it's an annoyingly common character in character sets
I'd like to cover.
This turns out to be all it takes to get FontForge to autohint fonts
on generation. FontForge's autohinter isn't perfect, but it's pretty
good and certainly better than anything else I've got.
That's the only character that Font Library says is missing for
supporting Afrikaans, so I may as well implement it even if Unicode
does say its use is strongly discouraged.
Before this change, emit_path() would emit contours starting at
whichever point was earliest in the points array. That was fine for
closed contours, but it meant the open contours tended to be emitted
in multiple parts. Now it first searches for start points of open
contours and emits those, and then does what it used to do to emit the
remaining (closed) ones. This has no effect (other than to slow
things down a bit) for fully-closed paths like those in outline
versions of Bedstead, but it makes the stroked ones much cleaner. Now
a contour can only end at a tip or at a 3-way junction.
Thanks to <http://www.twardoch.com/download/polishhowto/> for
guidance. All misinterpretations are my own. One character is
missing because I still don't have a good way to do an accented
capital S.
Now more-correctly generate family/subfamily names, both the versions
for programs that can't handle much variety (IDs 1 and 2), and the
proper typographic ones (IDs 16 and 17). This should stop "Medium"
turning up in my font selector.
