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25.0.50; Incorrect line height for some fonts

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Message #68 received at 20628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
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: Fri, 22 May 2015 18:42:20 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho <at> gmail.com>,  clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com,  20628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 11:27:45 -0400
> 
> > And the fields of ft_face seem to be set by FreeType library, via the
> > call to FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes, a few lines before the above snippet.
> 
> Could it be that the difference between Emacs and things like GEdit is
> that we request the ascent/descent of the whole font, whereas GEdit
> requests this data on a glyph-by-glyph basis?

_Is_ there such a thing as glyph-specific ascent and descent values?

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