From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
Cc: 34577@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34577: 27.0.50; Identical face specification yields different line heights on different platforms
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:03:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgsh9xtt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muiptr5p.fsf@metalevel.at> (message from Markus Triska on Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:07:46 +0200)
> From: Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
> Cc: 34577@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:07:46 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Is there a way to reliably obtain the same results on these platforms?
> >
> > Not when each platform has its own font back-end, no.
>
> As far as I can tell, xft is the font back-end that is used on both
> platforms. For example, when I evaluate the following form:
>
> (frame-parameter nil 'font-backend)
>
> then on Debian, this yields: (xft x)
> and on OSX, this yields: (xft)
>
> Is this useful to obtain consistent behaviour? Can I do anything to
> configure this identically? Is more information needed to do this?
I'm afraid you've exceeded the limits of my expertise on these
matters. I could mumble something about differences of rounding to
integral pixel values, but instead I will CC Handa-san, who might have
a better idea of what is involved here.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-19 19:25 bug#34577: 27.0.50; Identical face specification yields different line heights on different platforms Markus Triska
2019-02-19 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-10 15:07 ` Markus Triska
2019-06-10 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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