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<div>Good to know - what's the treatment for 3 and 4 consecutive off-curve cubic points, or a mixture of 3 or 4 cubic+quadratic off-curve points? Any non-ambiguous algorithmic interpretation of those, and implied hidden interpolated on-curve points?</div><div><br></div><div>Re-using a previously reserved field itself isn't a problem per se; but an "uninteresting" field for 30 years suddenly acquiring meaning (and quite important meaning as that) might be slightly problematic... we'll see.</div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, 22 September 2023 at 14:45:05 BST, Laurence Penney <lorp@lorp.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">That issue is well defined in the proposed scheme, by using a flag that was previously reserved:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> 0x80 CUBIC Bit 7: Off-curve point belongs to a cubic-Bezier segment<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="ydp4b649de3yqt6634700435" id="ydp4b649de3yqtfd51068"><br clear="none">> On 22 Sep 2023, at 14:00, Hin-Tak Leung <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:htl10@users.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htl10@users.sourceforge.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Just a caution: My recall of the exact details is a bit fuzzy, not having looked at it after a few years, but I remember there is an "optimization" details of the quadratic which will break very badly under cubic: in the typical cubic you get on-off-off-on-off-off-on, right? In quadratic it is a lot simpler, just on-off-on-off-on-off- (theoretically). I believe there is a clever optimisation to save a few bytes somewhere which says, if you have off-off, it implies a hidden on-point in the middle. This saves a few bytes as you don't encode the middle on-point. This obviously will break in the cubic case, as you now have an ambiguity: does two off-off points means two quadratic with an implied hidden middle on-point, or is it the middle of a cubic?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Microsoft or Apple people (or even freetype people) more familiar with TT instructions can correct me and/or fill in the details.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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