Neither. You can't hint diagonals, only horizontals and verticals.

So I just provide horizontal values and ignore the verticals?

Right.

Thanks!

Why can't you hint diagonals? If you're manually adding TrueType hinting you can.

Jason C

Since he was asking about standard stem values, I assumed he was asking about PostScript hints.

Since he was asking about standard stem values, I assumed he was asking about PostScript hints.

Right. I don’t even know enough about TT hints to read the tutorials in the right order.

Another way of putting this is that with PS outlines, all hinting distances are in the X or Y direction, even if the stroke is a diagonal (or a curve).

T

Hmmm. I thought all PS distances were totally unaware of x or y, stem, ht., counter, sb or temperature. But I'm just judging the results by the input and output because it's a black box of closed source code.