<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 10:31 AM Werner LEMBERG <<a href="mailto:wl@gnu.org">wl@gnu.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
>> You haven’t answered my question: What problem in industry are you<br>
>> trying to solve?<br>
> <br>
> The problem that no one can implement CFF/CFF2 with hinting if they<br>
> are not Adobe!<br>
<br>
I guess you mean that the FreeType implementation needs a formal<br>
description with an algorithm to avoid reverse-engineering, right?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Correct. If we are going to tell people "read FreeType code", that seems to defeat the purpose of having a file-format specification.</div><div><br></div><div>Hence my call to make OFF *complete*, by either deprecating & removing parts that are not complete currently, or add as new work items to spec them.</div><div><br></div><div>Same about script-shaping specifications. For that, I'm proposing new work items to develop script shaping specifications (Indic, Arabic, USE, etc) that are currently NOT part of OFF.</div><div><br></div><div>b </div></div></div>