On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:55:45PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: >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
Thanks Keith. That does the trick. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
