On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Tony Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I don't think we should support port specific ref test results.  That
>> kind of misses the point of using a ref test in the first place.  I mean,
>> you may as well check in port specific pixel results which are easier to
>> review for correctness.
>>
>> It may be the case that a ref test is not appropriate for what you're
>> trying to test.
>>
>
> In the case of line break behavior, using reftests seem better than pixel
> tests, since there is less need for port-specific expectations. If I can
> come up with a text based approach (perhaps using range boundary rects),
> then I'll do so, but in the mean time, reftests seem a better option,
> especially for defining correctness based expectations (instead of merely
> regression based expectations). But we are straying from the original topic
> of this thread.
>

Did you try using the ahem font to see if you can get the same line break
behavior across ports?  The ahem font doesn't always work for pixel tests
(anti-aliasing issues? maybe line height issues?), but I think the width of
each character should be the same.
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