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

>   I think that this problem is related to FreeType's additional
> "font properties".  Try xfd command,
> 
>   xfd -fn "-monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal--13-0-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1"
> 
> and check the differences of ascent and descent between "xtt" and 
> "freetype".  Perhaps no difference will be seen.

Indeed, I don't see any difference.

>  If so, try the
> attached patch and set "fp=n" option to fonts.dir:
> 
>   fp=n:cour.ttf -monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> 
> and would you tell the result?  If "fp=n" is set, the "freetype"
> backend does not add the font properties.

This patch is somehow broken. Fonts prefixed with 'fd=n' are not found 
afterwards.

-Michael