GNU bug report logs - #29078
25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender

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Message #63 received at 29078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 29078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use
 the rounded ascender and descender
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:20:49 +0100

On 2019-11-18 19:58:57 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:50:09 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> > Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 29078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > My point is that this seems to have nothing to do with the FreeType
> > library or its version, since I see the same on a system that uses
> > neither FreeType nor this particular font.
> 
> And indeed the reason here seems to be that some of the box-drawing
> characters are taken from a different font.
> 
> Could it be that the same happens on your system?  If you press and
> hold the right arrow key on the first line with the boxes (the 3rd
> line of the file, starting from top), do you see the block cursor
> sometimes becoming slightly larger?

No, the block cursor still seems to have the same size.

> If so, the characters where it becomes larger come from a different
> font, which is slightly taller than the default font; delete those
> taller characters, and the gaps should disappear. They did here.

Even if I take just

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I still see the gap.

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