There are a lot of things you can do to maximise FontLab's autohinting without getting into manual tweaking of hints. See Notes on Hinting with FontLab. Adam Twardoch wrote up a much more detailed follow-on: Autohinting with FontLab Studio 5. You may also want to try avoiding FL's hinting altogether with ttfautohint.
10 May 2012 — 12:26am
There is none that I know of.
10 May 2012 — 3:15am
There are quite a few resources on the Microsoft Typography site, specifically associated with Visual TrueType (VTT).
10 May 2012 — 3:47am
See the Practical TrueType Hinting PDF for some FontLab-specific examples.
10 May 2012 — 8:48am
There are a lot of things you can do to maximise FontLab's autohinting without getting into manual tweaking of hints. See Notes on Hinting with FontLab. Adam Twardoch wrote up a much more detailed follow-on: Autohinting with FontLab Studio 5. You may also want to try avoiding FL's hinting altogether with ttfautohint.