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1 charoffsets |
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4 Description |
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6 Some fonts seem to misreport their height, which leads to unsightly vert… |
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7 gaps appearing between rows of text with characters that are supposed to… |
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8 the vertical space, like box-drawing characters. |
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10 This is because the character height that st uses is off from the actual… |
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11 height, so there's a gap of bg space above and below each glyph. This ca… |
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12 adjusted by modifying the `chscale` value, but reducing that value alone… |
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13 clips the bottom of the glyphs. |
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15 This patch simply adds a `cyoffset` value (and a corresponding `cxoffset… |
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16 allow you to adjust the glyph position, so it doesn't get clipped short … |
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17 you reduce the `chscale`. You'll have to play with the values to get it … |
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18 look right with your font choice. |
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20 Example |
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22 Note the vertical gaps between the lines in the box art, and the raised … |
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23 that sticks out on the time display. |
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25 Taken with Pragmata Pro with a few font patches applied. |
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27 [](vertical-gaps.p… |
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29 Download |
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31 * [st-charoffsets-20220311-0.8.5.diff](st-charoffsets-20220311-0.8.5.dif… |
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33 Authors |
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35 * Zacchary Dempsey-Plante - <[email protected]> |
