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bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounde
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Vincent Lefevre |
Subject: |
bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:23:33 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.12.1+19 (078654a4) vl-117499 (2019-06-15) |
On 2019-11-18 19:09:37 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> But now I'm not sure there's a bug here. You evidently expect the
> lines of the box-drawing characters to join without gaps, but I'm not
> sure what this expectation is based on. For example, Emacs on
> MS-Windows doesn't use FreeType, but with a completely different font
> I see the gaps here as well. The fact that older versions of FreeType
> produced different display doesn't yet mean that display was correct
> and the current one isn't.
>
> So I'm inclined to argue that there's no bug here. What am I missing?
AFAIK, from the font description (which does not involve rounding),
there is no gap (that's why the FreeType developers suggested not
to use the rounded values). Moreover, it does not make much sense
to insert a gap. This looks ugly and this wastes screen space.
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- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender, (continued)
- 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
- 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/18
- bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender,
Vincent Lefevre <=
- 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/18
- 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/18
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, 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, 2019/11/19