Guys, after upgrading to freetype 2.4.6 on my Gentoo machine I have noticed that linespacing in xterm using a Freetype font has shrunk a lot. Here is a screenshot showing this effect:
http://postimage.org/image/1wckxjcis/ Both xterms show the same 25 lines, but with 2.4.4 the xterm used to take more space because of linespacing was considerably larger. I find the the new xterm harder to read now. I am wondering if this could be due to ascender and descender changes in 2.4.6. From release notes: For TrueType based fonts, the ascender and descender values were incorrect sometimes (off by a pixel if the ppem value was not a multiple of 5). Depending on the use you might now experience a different layout; the change should result in better, more consistent line spacing. My question is whether this rather dramatic shrinking of line spacing is intentional due to changes in 2.4.6, or if it exposes bug in xterm (or something else). I should also mention that I do not see changes in XFCE terminal, although I am not sure whether it uses the same font. Thanks, Miro _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
