On 2017-03-28 at 11:27:03 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
fwiw: this matters less on modern displays ... i'm not even sure if the lm / gyre have much hinting in them
Hinting matters less on modern printers, but screen resolution is still quite poor. Consider that the distance between your eyes and a book or a computer screen is similar. Resolution of printers is 1200 dpi or more, manufacturers of computer screens still believe that less than 100 dpi is good enough. Sure, you can zoom in, but I'd like to see a whole page on screen with a reasonable resolution. Latin Modern and TeX Gyre fonts are hinted, though not perfectly. Jacko said that parts of the specs are ambiguous. You can try yourself with Latin Modern Typewriter {\tt ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ} and you'll see that not all glyphs have the same height (at least in Adobe Reader). Hinting still needs some improvement but ATM Jacko concentrates on math fonts. Since hinting has no impact on metrics, it can be improved at a later time anyway. Regards, Reinhard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ------------------------------------------------------------------