Re: Xterm, Xft and line spacing
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
Re: Xterm, Xft and line spacing
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 stringBitstream Vera Sans Mono/string /test edit name=minspace booltrue/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 ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
