From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 17 13:53:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7473537B401; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6779E43F3F; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2003031721534700100ge2kge>; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:53:47 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2HLrkv5018579; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:53:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2HLrji5018578; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:53:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:53:45 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" To: Fred Clift Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav , Eric Anholt , Richard Nyberg , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update Message-ID: <20030317215345.GA18542@intruder.bmah.org> References: <20030317092212.H30487-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030317092212.H30487-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Fred Clift wrote: > Aparently many fonts have broken vertical sizes and the 'minspace=3Dtrue' > argument tells xft to calculate the font hight by looking at the highest > ascenders and lowest descenders rather than trusting the font's encoded > height. >=20 > There was a discussion on this recently on the devel@xfree86.org mailing > list... Fred-- Thanks much for the pointer...that was very helpful (and, like DES, I now have more aesthetically pleasing vertical spacing). For other interested parties, I found this message in the archives particularly interesting: http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg01208.html Bruce. --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+dkPo2MoxcVugUsMRAur9AJ4wxCY/bT+MzDywPAbWaMgvS6peOQCgrT06 Varw9wkduzFbIw4f6hFfaOk= =5XhG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message