Font hinting

[Rob Adams <robadams@ucla.edu>]

A recent upgrade of fontconfig-related libraries or configuration seems
to have created some problems with font hinting.

See http://readams.net/badfont.png

to see an example (notice the second line and the highly suboptimal
shape for the font).  This seems most noticable with the Verdana and
Arial fonts from msttcorefonts.  When I disable font hinting, the
problem with the itty-bitty vowels goes away, but that creates its own
font-ugliness problems.

Has there been some change made to the TrueType hinting support in
fontconfig or xft2 in debian?

-Rob Adams