On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 06:19:16PM +0000, sylvain.bertrand_AT_gmail.com wrote:
> I know I am walking on eggs: it seems st monospace font rendering with freetype
> (I use dejavu mono) has some vertical and/or horizontal gaps (whatever the
> rendering size).
>
> To illustrate, with lynx web browser:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character#Examples
>
> I don't know what is the bottom of this, anyone?
I've had this same problem since I upgraded to Debian 10. I believe this
is due to changes in character bounding box sizes because you can fix
this by adjusting cwscale and chscale. On my systems, I only have
vertical gaps, and setting chscale to 0.94 removes them. I submitted a
patch to the mailing list to allow both values to be specified using
absolute values of pixels instead of multipliers
(
https://lists.suckless.org/hackers/1907/16943.html) so you can ensure
bounding boxes were always the same size regardless of what the font
library reports character dimensions to be, but it was not committed.
Eric
Received on Fri Dec 06 2019 - 19:55:27 CET