> 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.
But 2.4.6 now shows the font using the baseline distance as intended
by its creator...
> I am wondering if this could be due to ascender and descender
> changes in 2.4.6.
Yes.
> My question is whether this rather dramatic shrinking of line
> spacing is intentional due to changes in 2.4.6,
It's intentional.
> or if it exposes bug in xterm (or something else).
It should be configurable IMHO. This is, xterm should introduce a new
configuration parameter which controls additional vertical whitespace
between the lines.
Werner
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