Around 23 o'clock on Mar 6, David Dawes wrote:
> I'm looking for as many rows as I can get in a given xterm size with a
> readable font, so I'd like to get rid of that unused white space. I tried
> a few things, and found that setting the font height to ascent + descent
> instead of what Xft reports as the height solves this.
The height in the XftFont structure is the line spacing defined by the font
designer as stored in the font itself, and often includes more spacing than
is strictly necessary. Font designers are generally more concerned about
readability than density. As a result, Xft provides an option to ignore the
font's specified height and use the ascent+descent instead:
$ xterm -fa monospace-11:minspace=true
You can also force a font to use minspace in your ~/.fonts.conf file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- ~/.fonts.conf for per-user font configuration -->
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<test name="family">
<string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
</test>
<edit name="minspace">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Replace 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' with the name of the font you're using
in xterm (if you're using 'monospace', you can see what that resolves to by
using 'xfd -fa monospace').
I'm also working with Bitstream to reduce the height of the Vera Sans Mono
font -- you're not the first to ask for more lines on the screen.
-keith
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