Bug 21088

Summary:	Sans glyph of 'cyrillic small letter yeru' is too wide
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Grundik <grundik-com>
Component:	Sans	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Current width compared to proposed

Description Grundik 2009-04-07 09:37:41 UTC

Created attachment 24645 [details]
Current width compared to proposed

As you can see on attached image, glyph width of letter 'ы' looks too wide. Sometimes inter letter interval even looks as a space. I think, that width of this glyph should be reduced at least by 50-60 points. Second line in image is rendered with reduced width of letter, and it looks much better.

Following patch is applied to font:

--- src/DejaVuSans.sfd (revision 2353)
+++ src/DejaVuSans.sfd (working copy)
@@ -61320,7 +61320,7 @@
 EndChar
 StartChar: uni044B
 Encoding: 1099 1099 1099
-Width: 1617
+Width: 1570
 Flags: W
 AnchorPoint: "above" 797 1147 basechar 0
 LayerCount: 2

Also same applies to oblique and bold typefaces.

Comment 1 Ben Laenen 2009-04-07 09:49:15 UTC

The effect you're seeing is not because the glyph being too wide, but because of hinting. So, it shouldn't be fixed like in your patch, but instead by editing the hinting instructions. This should be quite easy to fix, I'll try to do this tomorrow.

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