bug#20628: 25.0.50; Incorrect line height for some fonts

[Rasmus]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> writes:

>>>>>> On Sat, 23 May 2015 10:10:06 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>
>> Patches to introduce a list of fonts to ignore while searching for a
>> suitable font, and allow users to configure that list, will be
>> welcome.
>
> face-ignored-fonts ? 
>
>   DEFVAR_LISP ("face-ignored-fonts", Vface_ignored_fonts,
>              doc: /* List of ignored fonts.
> Each element is a regular expression that matches names of fonts to
> ignore.  */);
>   Vface_ignored_fonts = Qnil;
>
> The regexps to specify are against font names in the XLFD format.  The
> documentation is not so clear about this, probably because it was
> written for older font code that predates the current font backend.

Thanks for pointing this variable out!  It is insanely helpful and would
have solved my old woes:

     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/93832

[Note to self: apropos!]

It should definitely be documented prominently in the documentation
preferably close to the fontset variable!

Rasmus

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