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Hinting of "W"
** '''Jacko/Janusz (2004-04-16)''': ''Hardly implementable to full extent. Knuth constructs plusminus by shifting plus so that its bottom touches the baseline and next places a bar (minus) on the baseline. This works for circa half of the LM family. In the rest of fonts the glyph would be too high (most notably in LMBX5, LMBX6, LMSSQBX8 and LMSSQBO8). We decided that the resulting glyph should not be higher than ascender height; if it would, we decreased its height par force.''
* [mailto:blacktrash@gmx.net Christian Ebert (2004-01-16)]: Some design dizes sizes are not displayed correctly in Acrobat Reader (at least version x86 linux 5.0.5), e.g., the ‘A’ in 10pt is printed below the baseline ([http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/info/lmodern/lm10pt.tex lm10pt.tex], [http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/info/lmodern/lm10pt.png lm10pt.png]); the ‘i’ in 11pt is printed above the baseline ([http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/info/lmodern/lm11pt.tex lm11pt.tex], [http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/info/lmodern/lm11pt.png lm11pt.png]).
** [mailto:andreas.lobinger@netsurf.de Andreas Lobinger (2004-01-16)]: This may occur due to wrong hinting.
** '''Jacko/Janusz (2004-04-16)''': ''Not touched yet.''
* Stephan Hennig (2005-03-08): In thread "Italicalized old-style figures" from 2004-09-08 on comp.text.tex there has been some agreement to the opinion CM's old-style figures do look ugly. Is it possible for LM to provide nicer old-style figures?<br>As I'm completely ignorant about font design I don't really know what makes CM's old-style figures look so boring. And I don't know if a complete redesign would be necessary to get nicer ones. Maybe just slanting the current old-style digits slightly could make the single digits look more individual and less obstrusive?
**[mailto:h.harders@tu-bs.de Harald Harders]: I think only a complete new design would help. For instance, the 1 and 3 normally really look different in lining and old-style figures which they don't for LM. Slanting is wrong in my opinion.
* Thomas Zell (2010-06-22): The hinting of the capital "W" seems to be broken for example in lmr10. Acrobat Reader paints the diagonal lines way too thick. I edited the font in FontForge and removed all of the horizontal hints which seemed oddly placed to me (leaving only one at the bottom) and the "W" looked fine. Could these be due to a bug in Metatype1?
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