Bug 474522

Checked. They are all aesthetic preference from the original author. Hence, they should not be bug.

I tried to work on your demand, could you kindly have a look sample:

http://fedorapeople.org/~cchance/packages/liberation-fonts/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.sfd

http://fedorapeople.org/~cchance/packages/liberation-fonts/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf

Let me know if you are happy with that. So I could proceed changes on all included fonts.

Updated:

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-1.04.93.devel.tar.gz

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-1.04.93.devel.zip

Built to rawhide:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=988575

(In reply to comment #2)
> I tried to work on your demand, could you kindly have a look sample:
> 
> http://fedorapeople.org/~cchance/packages/liberation-fonts/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.sfd
> 
> http://fedorapeople.org/~cchance/packages/liberation-fonts/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf
> 
> Let me know if you are happy with that. So I could proceed changes on all
> included fonts.

I check with the fonts from https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-1.04.93.devel.zip,  all fixed. Thanks.

Here I put  the reason to report the bug：

1) to follow the unicode reference: 
    http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00a2/index.htm

2) cent sign marked as acrossed C is more clear and easy to designate in small size.


Liberation fonts will be the first choice for LGC.  Thank you !

Created attachment 328522 [details]
Display of cent sign in Sans and Mono with bytecode hinting

Hinting for ¢ is completely broken-- particularly in Mono.

The hinting has not been adjusted for the new design of the ¢ sign - see attachment 328522 [details] which I just posted.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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I don't have knowledge of hinting at the moment.

So better to revert?

It appears it's already been reverted in the latest releases on FedoraHosted, which have been re-generated from the Ascender-provided 1.02 release.

But yes, I agree, keep the original Ascender glyph unless you're willing to re-hint the cent sign for the benefit of Freetype builds that use bytecode hinting.

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Done - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=171510

Auto instruction by FontForge will be done after any changes on a given glyph. Hinting instructions came from the first version will be defined as legacy which is alright to be obsoleted if needed.