[dev] Re: [PATCH] Fix vertical character alignment in some cases

From: Ton van den Heuvel <tonvandenheuvel_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:22:07 +0100

To illustrate this, have a look at the 'branch' character before:
http://i.imgur.com/ymuPXAm.png ...and after:
http://i.imgur.com/f2J2Ozs.png

Ton

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Ton van den Heuvel
<tonvandenheuvel_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> The y-position of a character found by asking fontconfig for a matching
> font does not take the border pixels into account, resulting in a
> slightly misaligned vertical position.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ton van den Heuvel <tonvandenheuvel_AT_gmail.com>
> ---
> st.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
> index 2473af7..cd803ce 100644
> --- a/st.c
> +++ b/st.c
> _AT_@ -3665,7 +3665,7 @@ xmakeglyphfontspecs(XftGlyphFontSpec *specs,
> const Glyph *glyphs, int len, int x
> specs[numspecs].font = frc[f].font;
> specs[numspecs].glyph = glyphidx;
> specs[numspecs].x = (short)xp;
> - specs[numspecs].y = (short)(winy + frc[f].font->ascent);
> + specs[numspecs].y = (short)yp;
> xp += runewidth;
> numspecs++;
> }
> --
> 2.7.2
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