Re: [ft] Change in line spacing in xterm with freetype 2.4.6

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Both xterms show the same 25 lines, but with 2.4.4 the xterm used to
> take more space because of linespacing was considerably larger.  I
> find the the new xterm harder to read now.

But 2.4.6 now shows the font using the baseline distance as intended
by its creator...

> I am wondering if this could be due to ascender and descender
> changes in 2.4.6.

Yes.

> My question is whether this rather dramatic shrinking of line
> spacing is intentional due to changes in 2.4.6,

It's intentional.

> or if it exposes bug in xterm (or something else).

It should be configurable IMHO.  This is, xterm should introduce a new
configuration parameter which controls additional vertical whitespace
between the lines.


    Werner