Subject: Re: bug#14220: 24.3; Odd vertical height of some glyphs in certain fonts

From: Kenichi Handa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:45:01 +0900

In article <[email-masked]>, Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]> writes:

> If I set variable-pitch-face to Droid Serif, the right arrow → is much
> taller than most other glyphs, effectively forcing extra space after
> lines containing it. In DejaVu Serif, this does not happen.

Are you sure that your Emacs is using the Droid Serif font
for "→"?  I've just installed the droid-ttf package
(ubuntu), but the installed Droid Sefif font:

  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSerif-Regular.ttf

does not contain a glyph for → (U+2192), so Emacs uses some
other automatically found font for that character.  Please
check which font is used for → in your Emacs by putting
cursor on that character and type C-u C-x =.  If you do find
that your Emacs is using the Droid Serif font, could you
please send me that font?

> In LibreOffice and GEdit this problem does not occur.

There's a possibility that they find a better alternative
font than what Emacs finds.

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Kenichi Handa
[email-masked]