User Guide

Hinting
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Hinting Diagonals
Hinting diagonal stems is the most complicated job in hinting. There are
no special “diagonal” commands so you have to set both horizontal and
vertical commands to control the width of a diagonal stem.
We know two ways to hint diagonal stems:
1. Define special standard stem widths. Set vertical and horizontal
commands attached to these widths and control the rounding of stem
widths using the stems dialog box.
2. Set the positions of one side of the stem using the usual commands
(align and link) and set the position of the other side by single links
that are not rounded and not aligned. Adjust the width of the stem
using middle delta instructions.
If a diagonal stem is intersected by another vertical, horizontal or
diagonal stem then we recommend using the interpolation instruction
to set the position of the intersection points.
In most cases good hinting of diagonal stems is not possible without final
delta-hinting.