Hoary fonts - developers?

[thully at umich.edu]

OK, I've seen everybody's comments on this issue.

As far as the autohinter, I guess it may not work out for Hoary because
of the issues w/non Latin characters.  However, is there any possibility it
could be enabled if only locales supported by autohinter are installed?  I know
some will want to read things in other languages - but to my knowledge
autohinter only makes non-Latin fonts worse, not intolerably worse.  If this is
the case, autohinter should be switched on w/a system locale that uses Latin
fonts because it really makes those fonts SO much better (try them and see).

As to the font substitutions - something ought to be done for this. 
Substituting serif fonts for Arial/Helvetica is such a bad thing to do it
approaches being a bug.  I like substituting Bitstream Vera Sans for these,
because while this may not be the most accurate font in technical terms to use
in substitutions, it is the one which looks the best by far in my opinion.

Developers: any comment on these two issues?

Tim Hull
thully at umich.edu