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27.0.50; Identical face specification yields different line heights on different platforms
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> From: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>
> Cc: 34577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:07:46 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Is there a way to reliably obtain the same results on these platforms?
> >
> > Not when each platform has its own font back-end, no.
>
> As far as I can tell, xft is the font back-end that is used on both
> platforms. For example, when I evaluate the following form:
>
> (frame-parameter nil 'font-backend)
>
> then on Debian, this yields: (xft x)
> and on OSX, this yields: (xft)
>
> Is this useful to obtain consistent behaviour? Can I do anything to
> configure this identically? Is more information needed to do this?
I'm afraid you've exceeded the limits of my expertise on these
matters. I could mumble something about differences of rounding to
integral pixel values, but instead I will CC Handa-san, who might have
a better idea of what is involved here.
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