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25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.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 21:31:43 +0100

Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net> writes:

> On 2019-11-18 19:32:41 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Using
>> 
>>     ftcrhb:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans
>> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-25-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x957)
>
> Under Debian/unstable, I don't get it either. Neither with
>
>   ftcrhb:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>
> But the bug occurs with
>
>   ftcrhb:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-18-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>
> That's for the rendering. I don't know whether the cell height is
> honored in all these cases.

Ah, yes.  If I say

emacs -Q -fn "DejaVu Sans Mono:size=30"

and vary the size, I get the gaps in the lines for some sizes (like 23)
but not others (like 25).

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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