Re: [ft] Problems with Courier New

[John Smith]

Would using an external font server help? If so which one

Thanks In Advance,


On 4/24/05, Tobias Kunstmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the double line spacing is caused by a bug of Xorg.
> It computes the line spacing by adding the maximum height
> of a font to the maximum depth instead of using the
> font-supplied ascender and descender values. Since
> CourierNew contains quite large symbols (like these ⌠ and
> ⌡ -- integral top and bottom = Unicode 0x2320 and 0x2321)
> this results in an inordinate line spacing when setting
> "normal" text.
> 
> A bug report with a proposed patch can be found at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3119
> (you'd have to recompile xorg though).
> 
> Kind regards
> Tobias
> 
>