xkcd-script: has fontlint

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Issue type
Bug
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Mostly clear
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tooling

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Start by running FontForge fontlint against xkcd-script/font/xkcd-script.ttf and review the reported missing points at extrema. Inspect the font's contours and FontForge's available processing functions; done means fontlint no longer reports the extrema error.

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Description

xkcd-script font

The fontforge "fontlint" suggests there are issues with the font:

Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read LICENSE.
 Based on sources from 22:38 UTC 29-Apr-2017-D.
 Based on source from git with hash: b8e5ff8f24955f4d7d59ac73c903cc088b21bdb6
Internal Error: Attempt to unget two characters
CHECKING     xkcd-script/font/xkcd-script.ttf
ERROR      5 Missing points at extrema
FAIL         xkcd-script/font/xkcd-script.ttf

Looks like this will involve some post-processing of the contours, or a magic function buried within fontforge (probably already exists).

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