Control: found -1 9.31-3 Control: severity -1 normal Trying rxvt again after years...
On 2019-08-15 18:14:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2018-01-05 09:10:40 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Package: rxvt-unicode > > Version: 9.22-2 > > Severity: important > > > > Just like xterm and Emacs, rxvt-unicode has font issues with > > FreeType 2.8, which uses different rounding rules for ascender > > and descender for TrueType fonts. 2 consequences: > > * The window is taller and wider than expected (which can break > > existing configurations and waste screen space). This part seems to have been fixed, which is a big improvement! > > * There sometimes (not always) are blank lines (rows or columns) > > between characters, which is an issue for line-drawing characters. > > No issue with the built-in block graphics/line drawing characters > (the default), but some characters, not handled by this code, are > affected, e.g. > > ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ > (the issue disappears with "-letsp -1") Well, "-letsp -1" does not avoid the issue with some font sizes. This seems specific to rxvt, as xterm and GNU Emacs do not have any issue. However, xterm is rather ugly on block graphics/line drawing characters. > and > > ⎧ > ⎪ > ⎪ > ⎨ > ⎪ > ⎪ > ⎩ The issue with this one is still present. Note: I've tried the following: rxvt -fn "xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=18" rxvt -fn "xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=17" rxvt -fn "xft:Noto Mono:pixelsize=18" rxvt -fn "xft:Noto Mono:pixelsize=17" with and without "-letsp -1". -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
