Re: freetype module sometimes gets font height (descent?)

Michael Lampe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.fonts
Organization IWR Uni Heidelberg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>> Try once with "freetype" and once with "xtt" loaded:
>>>
>>> emacs -fn
>>>   "-monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal--13-0-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1"
>>>
>>> With "freetype" it looks like double-spaced. With "xtt" it's ok.
>>>
>>> This is with current cvs, 4.3 and probably before.
>>
>>
>>   I've tested using cour.ttf(included in WindowsNT), but
>> I cannot reproduce the problem.  There are no differences between "xtt" and "freetype" with current cvs.
>>
>>   What font do you use?
> 
> 
> Monotype Courier New from M$'s webfonts, cour.ttf, 302688 bytes, most probably the same font you get from a WindowsNT installation.
> 

Hmmm... Seems you need emacs 20.7 to reproduce. Emacs 21.x makes no 
difference to me, too.

Another way to see the same problem is to change the font for the 
playlist in xmms to Monotype Arial (arial.ttf).

-Michael
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