On 25-Apr-09, at 2:02 AM, Michael Rueger wrote:

> - fractional position rendering (rendering an anti-aliased glyph onto
> a fractional pixel position)
>
> Michael
>

Michael glosses over the fun details of do you round, or truncate, and  
as you accumulate float rounding errors what happens.
So if you typed    
llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Er *maybe* somewhere the median visual density of one of those 'l'  
would be placed a pixel to the left or right of where it should have  
been.


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