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25.0.50; Incorrect line height for some fonts

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Message #227 received at 20628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org>
Cc: clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com, ohwoeowho <at> gmail.com, 20628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20628: 25.0.50; Incorrect line height for some fonts
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 12:48:46 +0300

> Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 11:32:03 +0200 (CEST)
> Cc: clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com, ohwoeowho <at> gmail.com, 20628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> > A better alternative would be to detect such tall glyphs when they are
> > needed for display, and enlarge the line height only then.
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > But I don't yet see the data of these glyphs that could tell us to
> > do that, any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Have you seen my message w.r.t. the `ascent' and `descent' fields in
> the `font_metrics' structure of Emacs?  Does this help?

Yes, I've seen it; and yes, it helps.  I need to try the solution
based on that.

Thanks.

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