Cedilla junction rendering [Çç]

[nclm]

I encountered a little rendering bug on some applications when using the new Cs with a cedilla where you can see the junction between the C and the cedilla.

Çç in Inkscape (Gnu/Linux)

Çç in Linotype FontExplorer (Mac OS)

It doesn’t seem to happen everywhere. There’s no glitch in InDesign, for instance (I still have to do more testing). I encountered a similar bug last week-end with another font exported in TTF from FontForge, where the junctions between ‘-’ and the ‘c’ of the ‘e’ where similarly visible in all Mac OS browsers but no Gnu/Linux browsers (I didn’t look for a solution yet). Maybe there’s an export option in FontForge to merge all shapes or something when making the TTF, just to make sure it won’t happen anywhere?

[ms-studio]

Oh, thanks for spotting that!
Will check if there's a possibility of merging the shapes.

[ms-studio]

PS: it would be worth asking about that on the FontForge mailing-list.

[raphaelbastide]

In fontforge, you can merge the shapes to avoid this kind of behavior.
Element > Overlap > Remove overlap.
Source

[nclm]

Thanks! And as the Ç is made from two linked references, we have to do Edit → Unlink Reference before removing the overlap. (source 1) (source 2)
The issue here is that it’ll make changing the cedilla (or the Cs, for that matter) more difficult afterwards. Is this a problem? I’m not doing it now — plus as I’m not familiar enough with Git yet, I’m not sure of what will happen if I try doing an additional edit while there’s already a push request in the pipeline.

[ms-studio]

Well, if you merge them, that won't change the C and the cedilla.

If at some later point we would alter the C or cedilla glyph, it would be still possible and easy to delete the ç character, automatically re-generate it, and merge it.

So I would say: go for the merge!

[nclm]

Hop, merged in v011: #14 :)