That's what line-gap is: gap between consecutive lines.  There is no line
before the first line, and as such, no gap.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 4:37 PM Nikolaus Waxweiler <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Even more testing.
>
> ftview and Qt actually do the same GTK does: they don't add the line
> gap to the top, so text fields look compressed when the
> USE_TYPO_METRICS bit is set and typo asc+desc is smaller than hhea
> asc+desc. I'm not sure this is supposed to happen?! Didn't test MVAR
> modification.
>
> Firefox and Chromium disregard FT_Face's ascender, descender and height
> attributes and use either hhea (I think; no USE_TYPO_METRICS) or typo
> metrics (USE_TYPO_METRICS), modifying typo metrics and the FT_Face
> attributes through the MVAR table therefore has no effect unless the
> USE_TYPO_METRICS bit is set.
>
> The document body of a new text file in LibreOffice Writer 6.1.4.2
> stays the same  regardless of bit so I think LO Writer is doing it
> right. It doesn't support VFs though so I can't test MVAR modifications.
>
> Behdad, I'm not completely sure of typo deltas in MVAR modifying the
> currently active metrics. Given that the hhea set is basically a legacy
> value and is probably taller spaced than the typo metrics, so we might
> end up doing things the designer didn't intend? What FF/Chromium do
> strikes me as saner, i.e. writing typo metrics to FT_Face
> ascender/descender/height when USE_TYPO_METRICS is set :/
>
> Otherwise, I'd say unless anyone has objections, I think we can merge
> the branch.
>
>

-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/
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