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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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:14:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.2

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, vincent <at> vinc17.net, 29078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:07:20 +0100

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>>>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:05:52 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
    >> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:30:42 +0100
    >> Cc: 29078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
    >> 
    >> Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net> writes:
    >> 
    >> > With a snapsnot from 23 August 2019,  I'm still seeing them.
    >> 
    >> OK; thanks for checking.

    Eli> The discussion of this issue includes several proposed patches, so
    Eli> maybe we can dust off one of them and install something similar?

My proposed patch was wrong, so we can remove that from consideration.

    Eli> (I don't really understand the issue, so I'm unable to say anything
    Eli> more intelligent, sorry.)

Iʼll note that Vincent's sample file displays wrong on macOS as well
(this is with
mac-ct:-*-Hack-normal-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x4C7),
although Menlo shows similar artifacts, and Inconsolata gets the
character widths wrong as well).


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