From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Cc: 29078@debbugs.gnu.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftinaq1h.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d153pqw0.fsf@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (Vincent Lefevre's message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:12:47 +0100")
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-17 8:02 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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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