From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 29078@debbugs.gnu.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191118172333.GE2742@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pnhp2jse.fsf@gnu.org>
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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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-31 10:12 bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender Vincent Lefevre
2017-10-31 10:53 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-31 11:22 ` Werner LEMBERG
2017-10-31 13:43 ` Vincent Lefevre
2017-10-31 15:45 ` Werner LEMBERG
2017-10-31 14:00 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-31 16:24 ` Werner LEMBERG
2019-11-17 8:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-18 7:47 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-11-18 8:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-18 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 10:07 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-19 11:34 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-11-19 16:41 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-19 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 16:04 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-11-18 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 17:23 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2019-11-18 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 18:20 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-11-18 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 18:15 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-11-18 18:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-18 20:26 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-11-18 20:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-19 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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