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bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounde
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Nov 2019 09:02:50 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:
> For TrueType fonts, FreeType 2.8 uses different rounding rules for
> values in the FT_Size_Metrics structure, which is apparently used
> by Emacs (since there are visible changes). In particular, one can
> now have ascender + descender > height. The consequences are:
>
> 1. Tables look a bit ugly.
>
> 2. Windows (with the same number of text lines) are unnecessarily
> higher than before.
>
> 3. This can break existing configurations, where Emacs would be
> opened at start up, with an expected window size.
>
> I could notice changes at least with the default Mono font, which
> appears to be DejaVu Sans Mono.
The Emacs font rendering has changed some in Emacs 27 -- are you still
seeing these problems there?
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- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender, Vincent Lefevre, 2019/11/18
- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/11/18
- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/18
- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender, Robert Pluim, 2019/11/19
- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender, Vincent Lefevre, 2019/11/19
- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender, Stefan Kangas, 2019/11/19
- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/19
bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/18