Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:24:49 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@ofug.org> Cc: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>, Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@it.su.se>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update Message-ID: <20030317092212.H30487-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> In-Reply-To: <xzp4r64edxl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> > Speaking of xterm, I tried using -fa / -fs instead of -fn / -fb (to > get antialiasing), but the line spacing is wrong - it looks to be > about 1.5. Also, the size selection in the "VT Fonts" menu seems to > be out of order. You might check the difference between the following, for your linespacing problems... xterm -fa monospace-8:minspace=true xterm -fa monospace-8 Aparently many fonts have broken vertical sizes and the 'minspace=true' 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. There was a discussion on this recently on the devel@xfree86.org mailing list... Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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