Hi Keith,
Good to hear from you.
On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 8:28 AM Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Dominik Röttsches <drott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:11:05 +0300
> * Do you see dependencies other than indexing that require FreeType?
> (FreeType specific API functions [3] would need to be compiled out in
> the Fontations build).
Many fonts lie about their code point coverage, so fontconfig has to
examine each glyph outline to see if they generate any ink.
Umm. As part of significantly speeding up fontconfig we removed that logic in 2017. See:
As noted there by Khaled, the check was actually problematic for a style of font design that would want to include eg. a-acute in the cmap, but decompose it via GSUB. Such fonts used to have to include a non-empty outline for a-acute. Not with this change.
So, there's water under that bridge for better or worse. I don't remember we ever receiving a complaint or bug report about it.
b
