On 2017-10-09 04:31:29 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2017-10-08 13:38:10 -0700, Mike Miller wrote: > > I scanned the upstream bug report. I don't really follow all the details > > yet, but I guess a next step would be to identify packages that may be > > affected by this change? So far that looks like Pango and Xft? > > and possibly the applications themselves. In the case of xterm, > it uses the inaccurate, rounded "ascent" and "descent" values of > FT_Size_Metrics that are passed by FreeType via Xft (set up by > XftFontOpenPattern). Instead, the accurate values from FT_Face > should be used. [1] However, I don't know whether Xft provides > them in some way. They are not in the XftFont structure. [2] > > [1] https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html > [2] https://linux.die.net/man/3/xft
I've reported bugs against xterm in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880407 and GNU Emacs upstream: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=29078 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
